Talk:cpp/language/bit field

Hi guys

Before I start nagging I'd like to say thanks for the great work! :)

From the page it wasn't very clear to me what the significance of the type in a bit field is, which led to the following questions on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35056179/c-size-of-structure-with-bit-fields

I still don't really get it but it seems to me now there's more to the type than what I understood from the page (or maybe that's all "not really in the standard but almost standard?").

Cheers, Damian

Bit field, bit-field or bitfield. The C and C++ pages differ. The ISO C standard uses a hyphen. In Wikipedia, Bit field wins and the other two are redirects. Linguistically, "bit field" is probably better, but then cornfield vs corn field vs wheat field.

172.70.91.200 02:14, 29 March 2023 (PDT)Giuliano

Try not to overthink it. The standard is often inconsistent about this kind of thing, as are many other standards. --Ybab321 (talk) 03:54, 29 March 2023 (PDT)