C++ bitfield packing with bools

Question

I\'ve just done a test with bitfields, and the results are surprising me.

class test1 {
public:
    bool test_a:1;
    bool test_b:1;
    bool test_c:1;
            


        

Answer 1

Wow, that's surprising. In GCC 4.2.4, the results are 1, 4, and 4, respectively, both in C and C++ modes. Here's the test program I used that works in both C99 and C++.

#ifndef __cplusplus
#include 
#endif
#include 

struct test1 {
    bool test_a:1;
    bool test_b:1;
    bool test_c:1;
    bool test_d:1;
    bool test_e:1;
    bool test_f:1;
    bool test_g:1;
    bool test_h:1;
};

struct test2 {
    int test_a:1;
    int test_b:1;
    int test_c:1;
    int test_d:1;
    int test_e:1;
    int test_f:1;
    int test_g:1;
    int test_h:1;
};

struct test3 {
    int test_a:1;
    bool test_b:1;
    int test_c:1;
    bool test_d:1;
    int test_e:1;
    bool test_f:1;
    int test_g:1;
    bool test_h:1;
};

int
main()
{
    printf("%zu %zu %zu\n", sizeof (struct test1), sizeof (struct test2),
                            sizeof (struct test3));
    return 0;
}