Bit-fields of type other than int?

Question

I have a code which uses bit-fields declared as follows

typedef struct my{
    const char *name;
    uint8_t is_alpha : 1;   
    uint8_t is_hwaccel : 1; 
           


        

Answer 1

Why not use int? The actual implementation of bitfields varies from compiler to compiler. If you want to write portable code, use int. If you want to create a small structure, or a structure of a fixed number of bytes, or a structure where the bits are in a fixed position, don't use bitfields. Create a uint8_t member called something like flags and define macros to use as bitmasks.