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Bitfields are evil...the fact that the language designer left them out signals he/they have good taste...I have to get around to trying out Rust.

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No, ill-defined non-portable C bitfields are evil.

If you can specify bit endianness, byte endianness, spans of bytes, and so on... bitfields are mighty nice.

But the thing is...the spec is ill-defined in C, and given the fact the C runs on almost any processor, you can't specify endianess in the abstract and pandemonium ensues.

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