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Subject: Re: [9fans] struct problems
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:56:18 +0000
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ron minnich wrote:
> yes, the whole bitfield thing is a total botch when it cames to real
> hardware. Truly bad things happen.

Bad things sometimes happen even with access of memory-
mapped device registers via ordinary integer types.