Re: [boost] Any interest in a portable bitfields?

I am highly interested, as my work involves 3D games, bit-packed representations, and colors. On 3/4/06, Emile Cormier <emilecormier@mailcan.com> wrote:

word. It also doesn't suffer from the problem in C++ bitfields where the compiler can arbitrarily decide to align bitfields along word boundaries.

This solution has been very useful to me when dealing with hardware registers and with 16-bit color formats.