Re: [PATCH] Pacify Oracle Studio c99

[Paul Eggert]

Paul Smith wrote:
> I saw this warning on Windows as well.  I seem to recall that this was
> done on purpose to pack data structures more tightly, which can save a
> lot of memory on large build systems.
>
> However looking at it now I don't think it will actually end up saving
> any space.

I don't either. In a struct, 'unsigned int foo : 8;' should behave like 
'unsigned short foo : 8;', and similarly if you change 'short' to 'char', or 
change '8' to '1'. At least, that should be true for typical compilers (the C 
standard doesn't say exactly what should happen).