Re: Can anyone help : ERROR 296

From: Paul Pluzhnikov (ppluzhnikov-nsp_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:16:10 -0700

ramesh.sarda@gmail.com writes:

> Error 298: "test.c", line 6 # In ANSI C bitfields must be one of 'int',
> 'signed int', or 'unsigned int' type.
> u_char field1 :4;

Did you have a question, or are you simply entertaining us with
your buggy code? Please read this:
 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> struct {
> u_char field1 :4;
> }full_of_fields;

Make that (just like compiler told you to):

struct {
      unsigned int field1 :4;
} full_of_fields;

Cheers, 

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