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Re: [lpc2000] Bit-fields are brain-dead (was Looking to buy compiler)

2005-11-09 by David Hawkins

Charles Manning wrote:
> I would refine this:
> 
> Never use them for anything that does hardware accesses or has hardware 
> dependencies.
> 
> I use them quite a bit for packing data into software structures because this 
> allows me to do bit-wise packing without writing a whole bunch of shifter 
> code. Being able to bit-pack structures easily can save a lot of space when 
> creating large numbers of them.
> 

Yeah, I like that refinement.

Dave

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