Ada to D - an array for storing values of each of the six bits which are sufficient

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 23:22:31 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> Maybe someone will show a primitive packed array. I really can 
> not imagine how to do it on D.
		
Maybe you can somehow use bitfields. While what happened is 
something like this:

-----
import std.stdio, std.bitmanip;

struct A
{
	mixin(bitfields!(
			uint, "bit",  6,
			bool, "flag1", 1,
			bool, "flag2", 1));
}


void main() {

	A obj;

	int[] a;

	foreach (e; 0 .. 64) {
		obj.bit = e;
		a ~= e;
	}

	writeln(a);

	// obj.bit = 64; // Value is greater than
	//the maximum value of bitfield 'bit'
}
-----
http://ideone.com/Opr4zM