From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3d7b84cbe306c920a4c26688a257ceaa@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] struct problems From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:09:26 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a6b4468a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 These two are from memory, since grep hasn't turned up the sources (it's time to fully index all my files, I guess) and neither one is in the fortunes file: Bit-fields are a botch and a blemish. - Dennis Ritchie (possibly from a Usenix conference) Only children and idiots use bit-fields. - Rob Pike