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Re: C Bitfield types and alignment


From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:20:41 -0800


On Dec 5, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

Given that we're using this to pick apart data structures in packets, we shouldn't use bitfields.

Actually, in this particular case, we're *not* using it to describe the data structures in packets, so using bitfields 
is OK; we can leave it to the compiler to do something reasonable.

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