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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: bitfields, how big can their elements be?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:51:07 GMT
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- In-reply-to: greear@pollux.cs.uga.edu's message of 12 Mar 1996 01:51:07 GMT
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- In article <4i2lab$ili@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>
- greear@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Ben Greear) writes:
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- BG:
- BG: Ok, i have a question on bitfields.... How big can their members be,
-
- Eacm member is valid if its width is smaller than or equal to the
- number of bits in an ordinary object of the corresponding type,
- i.e. the number of bits in an int. This number may vary from
- implementation to implementation, but is guaranteed to be at least 16.
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- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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