On 12/4/06, Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok... I was planning to make big-endian versions of the structs so that the endian issue would be solved. But if the bit layout is not consistent, I guess bitfields are useless for wire formats. I didn't know that though, I thought the C standard specified that the compiler should allocate bits out of a word using the lower bits first.
The C standard explicitly allows it to be implementation defined. Having been bit by this exact problem, I can also recommend never using bitfields for anything other than things kept solely in local memory. Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
