Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:48:45 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6] IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Keith Owens wrote: > > There is no scope for a compiler to reorder the members or the bit > fields of a structure.
The actual bit ordering is implementation-defined, though, so in effect the bitfield setup _does_ depend on the compiler and architecture details.
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