DIP: add Bit Fields
    Walter Bright 
    newshound2 at digitalmars.com
       
    Mon Mar 11 18:02:54 UTC 2024
    
    
  
On 3/9/2024 12:38 AM, Daniel N wrote:
> I guess it might be possible to make an even stronger guarantee, specifying that 
> the current behavior is how it must work on windows and unix in order to be 
> compliant with the D language spec. The same way we decided to define the common 
> practise for integer wrapping and two's complement.
I've thought about that, and it seemed more straightforward to simply rely on 
the specified behavior of the associated C compiler. It's like D doesn't specify 
how floating point arithmetic works, just that it conforms to IEEE754.
    
    
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