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:
> On 31-Jul-12 22:21, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>> Well curiously it was easier to fix than I thought (a line for 
>> a static if, and a modification of the masking)... Was there 
>> any other bugs that come to mind? Anything of consequence?
>
> 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.

  Guess this means I'll be working on BitArrays a bit later and 
work instead on the bitfields code. What fun... :) I thought I 
had bitfields as separate already, but it's kinda thrown both 
sets of changes in. Once I figure it out I'll get them separated 
and finish work on the bitfields.