changing struct bitfield allocation ?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 25, 2003, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:

>> BITS_BIG_ENDIAN?

> It specifically states that it has no effect on structure layout:

>  "This macro does not affect the way structure fields are packed into
>   bytes or words; that is controlled by BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN."

It says it doesn't affect packing into bytes or words.  I think it
does affect bit-fields.  See, for example, h8300.h: it defines
BITS_BIG_ENDIAN to 0, even though BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN is 1, and I *think*
it gets the effect you want.

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