On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:09:23 -0400, you wrote:
>Be careful:
>
>>typedef struct recpack_t {
>>  unsigned int abc: 8;
>>  unsigned int def: 8;
>>  } recpack_t;
>
>Does _not_ ensure byte ordering the same as:
>
>typedef struct recpack_t {
>  unsigned char abc;
>  unsigned char def;
> } recpack_t;
>
>
All you can do is check the assembly code generated by the compiler being
used. As I noted before, with this compiler "unsigned char" is going to
be 16 bits, so bitfields are required to get a 8 bit value.

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