Bitfield manipulation in C - Stack Overflow
Jun 25, 2009 · The use of bit fields in this manner is highly non-portable. See en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/bit_field Notes section: alignment and ordering of bit fields …
memory - When to use bit-fields in C - Stack Overflow
Jul 24, 2014 · When talking about bit fields and their size in memory one should keep in mind that c++ compilers will allocate bit-fields in memory as follows: several consecutive bit-field …
Bit fields in C# - Stack Overflow
I have a structure which I need to populate and write to disk (several actually). An example is: byte-6 bit0 - original_or_copy bit1 - copyright bit2 - data_alignment_indicator bit3 -
C/C++: Force Bit Field Order and Alignment - Stack Overflow
51 Bit fields vary widely from compiler to compiler, sorry. With GCC, big endian machines lay out the bits big end first and little endian machines lay out the bits little end first. K&R says …
c - Why bit endianness is an issue in bitfields? - Stack Overflow
In theory bit-fields is a good idea, but the C standard completely fails to support them. In my experience, code which is using bit fields is far more bug prone, because the programmer …
c - Initializing bit-fields - Stack Overflow
May 13, 2014 · Pretty much everything related to bit-fields in the C standard is poorly defined. Typically, you will not find anything explicitly addressing the behavior of bit fields, but their …
How do bit fields and their alignments work in C programming?
May 4, 2014 · Almost everything about bit-fields is implementation defined. In particular, how bit-fields are packed together is implementation defined. An implementation need not let bit-fields …
C/C++ bitfields versus bitwise operators to single out bits, which is ...
Nov 4, 2013 · Second, bit fields are part of the language and so the code won't be "stuck", just recompile for the new processor. If you're talking about big/little endian, that's a serialization …
bit fields - Bitwise structure programming in C - Stack Overflow
How does this work? struct { int a : 21; int b : 11; }; Are a and b two separate int variables or the same variable using different bit fields?
c - How is the size of a struct with Bit Fields determined/measured ...
Nov 9, 2010 · Within a structure object, the non-bit-field members and the units in which bit-fields reside have addresses that increase in the order in which they are declared. A pointer to a …