Re: Packing of union fields and bool_bf

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:22:31 -0500
> 
> >     Adjacent bit fields are packed into the same 1-, 2-, or 4-byte
> >     allocation unit if the integral types are the same size
> 
> 
> It's silly to require the integral types to be the same size, since the
> actual size is given by the number of bits in the bitfield. But if it's
> the Microsoft API we can't change it. Does the attached patch work
> around the problem?

Yes, I installed something similar (__MINGW32__ instead of DOS_NT, as
I don't think the MSDOS build needs this).

Thanks.