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Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue,  7 Mar 2006 09:23:32 +0000
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> the trouble is these structures go on forever and have many
> bitfields. (in one i count 46 fields, all integers of random width,
> randomly intermixed.)

they shouldn't rely on bitfields.  in particular, the language does
not guarantee which order they are assigned to bits in a larger
unit (ie, left to right or right to left).

the nice thing is that in the plan 9 environment, you get to
fix such mistakes and do much better (although it's always
tedious to discover that late in the day)