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Subject: [DPRG] I didn't want this to work: C structure confusion
From: Dale Wheat dale at dalewheat.com
Date: Fri Sep 8 17:33:36 CDT 2006

Ed,

 > The allowed types for bitfields in a struct or union in C are only int,
 > signed int or unsigned int.  What is happening here is the compiler
 > preprocessor is using the default promotion of your defined types to int,
 > after that assignment from any other type with the same default promotion
 > will work without generating any warnings or errors.

Well, fiddlesticks.  Any way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks,

Dale

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