Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 08:28:55 -0800 | From | "Ray Lee" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack |
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On 12/4/06, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> wrote: > Ok... I was planning to make big-endian versions of the structs so that the > endian issue would be solved. But if the bit layout is not consistent, I > guess bitfields are useless for wire formats. I didn't know that though, I > thought the C standard specified that the compiler should allocate bits out of > a word using the lower bits first.
The C standard explicitly allows it to be implementation defined. Having been bit by this exact problem, I can also recommend never using bitfields for anything other than things kept solely in local memory.
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