On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 08:52:43PM -0500, Don B. Roadman wrote:
> I guess you misunderstood. This isnt the same as a bit variable.
> The idea is to be able to use each bit of the variable as a BIT type
> variable, ie, a variable which occupies one bit of memory, and can
> have the values 0 or 1. This means that it can (or should) be able to

That's exactly what the last suggestion in the FAQ achieves, at
the expense of a little complexity in setting up (but that is
provided for you in the FAQ, so all you have to do is copy it).
And the beauty of it is that it is 100% portable ANSI code, you
can use it on *any* ANSI compiler. That's about as close
to a free lunch as you're going to get.

OR - if all you want is a bit variable, then you can just declare one.
E.g.

bit     myvar;

This is non-ANSI, but to port it to a compiler without bit variables
only requires

#define bit     char

So there are several answers, depending on what the question is - all of
them protect your code investment. And as I've said before, you may not
think that's important now, but one day you will wish you had.


Regards, Clyde

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