Ray Lee wrote:
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.
Yeah, I just read that paragraph in K&R... sigh. Bitfields make the code so
readable, though :) Anyway, I'll rewrite it to use good old shifting and masking.
Kristian
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