Just a place holder for referencing all of the missed-optimizations with bit-fields.
CCing kazu because he opened most of the bugs. Confirmed.
Patches addressing some of the issues: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-04/msg00969.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-04/msg01049.html I'm linking them from here for reference.
Mine but I suspect this won't be until next year.
No longer working on bitfields optimization. Maybe in a few years I will be again but not today.