scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) (09/21/88)
Has anyone else run into a problem with bit-field assignments? It seems that the result of the assignment is not the value that was assigned to the bit field as it should be, but rather the value of the int containing the bit field as illustrated by the following program: #include <stdio.h> struct { unsigned :3; unsigned a:1; } x; main() { printf("Value of x.a = 1 is %d\n", x.a = 1); } Value of x.a = 1 is 8 I've discovered this on System V/386 Version 2.2 - anyone know how pervasive it is? (Anyone have any good idea how to search mumblety thousand lines of code for multiple assignments involving bit fields?) ---- Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!scjones SDRC scjones@sdrc.uucp 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 "Save the Quayles" - Mark Russell