type and size of bit-fields

[Henry Spencer]

In article <12638 at adobe.UUCP> taft at adobe.COM writes:
>Now admittedly, nearly everything to do with bit-fields is implementation
>dependent. On the other hand, it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect an
>implementation to support bit-fields of any size up to and including the
>largest integral type. Can anyone offer authoritative information...

It's pretty much as you've stated.  The standard promises almost nothing
about bitfields.  The degree of support for them is a "quality of
implementation" issue.  One would hope for the property you request, but
there is no guarantee of it.
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