Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: offsets in structures. Message-ID: <5172@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 15:05:18 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5172 Posted: Wed Oct 10 15:05:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:10:37 EDT References: <393@orion.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 13 This is useful except on the VAX it don't work for bit fields (now before you scream, let me demonstrate...) sturct foo { int x; char a:4, b:4; char c; }; You can't find the offset of the char that contains a and b. Just another reason for not using bitfields, I guess. -Ron