bit fields

[Paul Backus]

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?

Don't use bitfields for anything that needs to have a stable ABI. 
They're not even guaranteed to have the same layout when using 
the same compiler on different platforms [1], much less between 
different languages.

[1] https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/bitfields.html