Why must bitfields sum to a multiple of a byte?

[Era Scarecrow]

On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 20:41:55 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:

> Great to see things moving. Could you please do a separate pull 
> for bitfields it should get merged easier and it seems like a 
> small but important bugfix.

https://github.com/rtcvb32/phobos/commit/620ba57cc0a860245a2bf03f7b7f5d6a1bb58312

  I've updated the next update in my bitfields branch. All 
unittests pass for me.