Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!violet!afscian
From: afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Initialized bitfileds - help me read
Message-ID: <12417@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 89 17:33:14 GMT
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In article <1989Mar15.165019.21562@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <13363@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>>Are there any *standard* caveats about bitfield initialization? ...
>One:  many old compilers won't do it, or don't do it correctly.
What does the standard say about this? Is there a correct ANSI standard
method? I don't recall seeing anything in the standard detailing this.

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