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  2. From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
  5. Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:37:10 +0000
  6. Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
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  15. Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > The only thing that bitfields are good for, portably, is optimizing the
  18. > storage of small signed or unsigned integers or flag sets, at some
  19. > computational expense.
  20.  
  21. Or, for example, implementing standard communications protocols used frequently
  22. in embedded systems, such as MIL-STD-1553.
  23.