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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: more that 32 flag array testing
Keywords: boolean,testing,bits
Message-ID: <18483@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 01:13:25 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.165154.26747@vitro.uucp> <4811@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <4811@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> rmacgreg@cs.strath.ac.uk (Sorcerer) writes:
>I don't know if this will work, never having tried it myself,

Wouldn't it have been easier to try it than to post this message around the
world?

>I see no reason why you couldn't define a bitfield to be 100 bits long.

(a) It's not allowed by ANSI, K&R, or common practice.

(b) Even if it were, it wouldn't work.  What's really needed is an *array* of
bitfields, which is illegal because of a technicality related to the array and
pointer duality.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint