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!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Do you use bit fields? Message-ID: <4823@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 12:17:46 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4823 Posted: Sat Sep 22 12:17:46 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 06:50:05 EDT References: <12150@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 9 The Oracle C compiler can't even do simple things in C correctly, so I wouldn't hold out for them to be able in doing bit fields. We logged more than one hundred unrelated bugs in that compiler ranging from production of incorrect code, unimplemented things, misparsings, etc... For real fun, declare a variable R12. -Ron