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daeken on April 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: How many programmers don't know about bit-wi...

You can do this with bit field structs in C: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node13.html

Super handy when you're dealing with oddly packed int representations and such.

huhtenberg on April 7, 2013 [–]

You would think so, but - No, there are no bitfield arrays. You can't have -

  struct octet
  {  
    int bit:1 [8];
  };

which is what the OP is asking for.

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