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From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Bitfields in unions
Message-ID: <carbide@dce.ie>
Date: 16 Apr 91 11:29:27 GMT
Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland
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Can a union contain a bitfield?  K&R2 obliquely implies no, while
gcc -pedantic says yes.  I'm inclined to believe K&R myself, though
at least on machines without alignment constraints such a thing
would seem reasonable.

,
Eamonn