From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Lint bug with bit fields 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2896
Posted: Thu Mar 31 19:14:27 1983
Received: Thu Mar 31 19:14:27 1983

>From page 197 of Kernighan+Ritchie:

	"The language does not restrict the types of things that
	are declared as fields, but implementations are not required
	to support any but integer fields..."

...and most don't.  This is obviously a place where the compiler
your lint is based on is not quite the same one you get from cc.
I'm afraid it's macro-defining time.  This is just as well if you
are trying to write portable code, as C compilers have a tendency 
towards bugs in bitfield handling.  Dennis Ritchie himself has
described bitfields as "a botch and a blemish".

					Henry Spencer
					U of Toronto