Dimitry Golubovsky writes: > > If one wants to automatically determine offset of a regular field in a > C structure, one uses `offsetof' > > According to the documentation, > > ============== > This macro (offsetof) won't work if member is a bit field; you get an > error from the C compiler in that case. > ==============
Yes, because it's not addressable. > Do there exist any means in gcc to measure offsets (of enclosing > integer field) and bit mask for bit fields? No. > If not, any chance to add them in the future? I doubt it. We're very reluctant to add new language extensions to C, and this one would be very problematic. Andrew.
