Who does that w/ bit fields? You either check if it's
true/false or you use the expected bit operations.

On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 19, 2014, at 8:43 AM, yla...@apache.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Author: ylavic
>>> Date: Thu Jun 19 12:43:05 2014
>>> New Revision: 1603863
>>> 
>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1603863
>>> Log:
>>> Use unsigned bit flags (otherwise the non-zero value to be used is -1).
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't understand that at all... A bit is either 1 or 0.
>> 
> 
> Well, it depends on what you are doing with that bit...
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
> {
>    struct {
>        int s:1;
>    } bitfield;
> 
>    bitfield.s = 1;
>    if (bitfield.s > 0) {
>        printf("positive\n");
>    }
>    else {
>        printf("negative or nul\n");
>    }
>    if (bitfield.s == 1) {
>        printf("one\n");
>    }
>    else {
>        printf("not one\n");
>    }
> 
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> $ ./bitfield
> negative or nul
> not one
> 

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