Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

[Ray Lee]

On 12/4/06, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Ray
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