Help with bit-field semantics in C and C++

[Joe Buck]

> [ here E is a four-valued enum, 0,1,2,3 ]
> 
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:09:02PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> > (E)n, where n is an int with value, say of 7, is permitted by the 
> > standard to take on the value 7.  This is because the text of the 
> > standard says the value is unspecified.  7 is a unspecified value, 
> > honest.

I wrote:
> I agree with you so far; (E)n might be 7.

Rather, I should say that at this point, the implementation might have
a 7 in the storage allocated for (E)n.  I'll remain agnostic on the
question of what "might be" might be.