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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Signed bit fields
Message-ID: <3154@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Aug-83 22:20:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 14 22:20:39 1983
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Actually, if you want portable code, you should avoid bitfields
entirely.  Many C implementations botch them.  They aren't really
very well designed in the first place;  Dennis Ritchie has been
heard to refer to them as "a botch and a blemish".
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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