Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09T00:59:36Z

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The C language clearly says that bitfields have implementation-defined
> types.

Btw, this isn't even some "theoretical discussion". LOTS of compilers do
unsigned bitfields. It may even be the majority. There may (or may not) be
some correlation with what the default for "char" is, I haven't looked
into it.

Linus