From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Individual Bits
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:46:21 -0700
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Sérgio Vale e Pace wrote:

>     I'm trying to make a struct to work something like this:
> 
> defined_struct data;
> data=8;
> data.bit0=1; // data=9
> data.bit2=1; //data=13
> 
> or at least
> 
> defined_struct data;
> data.value=8;
> data.bit0=1; // data=9
> data.bit2=1; //data=13
> 
> but I'm not figuring how can somebody give-me some help.

Use bitfields:

    struct S {
        unsigned bit0 : 1;
        unsigned bit1 : 1;
        unsigned bit2 : 1;
        unsigned bit3 : 1;
        unsigned bit4 : 1;
            ...
    };

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