bit fields

[max haughton]

On Monday, 30 August 2021 at 22:45:36 UTC, TheGag96 wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 August 2021 at 08:20:25 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> 3. DasBetterC is not in a great place since it can't do 
>> matching bit fields.
>
> I think I may be experiencing a bug in a betterC project of 
> mine as a result of me assuming that `bitfields` is doing the 
> same thing as gcc would...! Is there a way I can get things 
> synced up on at least one platform in the meantime?
>
> I feel pretty in favor of having bit fields as a language 
> feature, warts and all!

Read the assembly code/print bit patterns and make sure your code 
is doing the right shifts.

The write unittests.