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Aucbvax.5279 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Nov 22 09:41:23 1981 Re: unamed bit fields and other losses on v7 c >From Lepreau@UTAH-20 Sun Nov 22 09:39:31 1981 Both the v7 & 4.1 versions of pcc support initialized bit fields, which the Richie compiler does not. Only the 4.1 compiler supports signed fields. HOWEVER, the C reference manual clearly states that

"implementations are not required to support anything but integer [NB 'integer' not 'int'] fields. Moreover, even 'int' fields may be considered to be unsigned."

Moral: only use unsigned fields. Lint catches int's. -------

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