Bitfields in D

[test123]

On Tuesday, 18 October 2022 at 03:04:52 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
> [Adding bitfields to 
> D](https://dlang.org/changelog/2.101.0.html#dmd.bitfields) for 
> C interop is nice as it will automatically match the platform’s 
> ABI for bitfields, but I don’t understand why we would want the 
> implementation defined nightmare for regular D bitfields. One 
> of the most annoying things about C bitfields is that if you 
> use them,  you can’t just write your structs to disk or across 
> the network as your format is immediately non-portable across 
> different systems. That sucks as that’s exactly when you would 
> want to save space with bitfields. Native D bitfields should 
> avoid this problem.
>
> [...]

With d CTFE reflection, this is easy to workaround.