CompuServe Messages

No, its definitely not a bug. Both ANSI and K&R essentially say that bit-field implimentation is entirely implimentation-defined, and Lattice's implimentation doesn't seem to do anything really bizarre. Perhaps it does not perform optimally on a 68000, but this only shows that bitfields are generally pretty kludgy, entirely non-portable, and dangerous to use if you don't really know what you're doing. In many cases its better to use an int or long or whatever, and do the masking and shifting yourself. -Mike