From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, July 30, 2026 03:33:15
The whole bitfield concept seems like something that C implementations
have never taken seriously. That has made programmers wary of them --
which of course the C compiler writers have taken as an excuse to
continue with their neglect.
Just saw a couple of commits come through in the libdvdread project
which reinforce this. It looks like somebody is wanting the code to
compile with something other than GCC now. Unfortunately, the
?MS-compatible compilers? they talk about don?t seem to be as smart
about packing bitfields.