Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Initialized bitfileds - help me read
Message-ID: <1989Mar17.175208.1064@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13363@steinmetz.ge.com> <1989Mar15.165019.21562@utzoo.uucp> <12417@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 17:52:08 GMT

In article <12417@watdragon.waterloo.edu> afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes:
>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.

Precisely.  Initialization of bitfields is not special in any way in
ANSI C -- they are ordinary structure members for this purpose.
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