From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!p500vax:pat Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards Title: Re: bit field initialization question Article-I.D.: p500vax.189 Posted: Wed Apr 27 01:41:35 1983 Received: Thu Apr 28 02:36:04 1983 References: ogcvax.295 If "unsigned char" is used as the type of the fields instead of "unsigned" you will get the desired result, at least if you are using the 4.1a VAX C compiler.