[Asterisk-Dev] ast_flags question

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On January 8, 2005 03:34 am, Holger Schurig wrote:
> I'm wondering why nobody uses the c-compiler feature of bitmask handling.

> struct bitstruct {
>         int b : 1;
> };

> struct bitstruct b;
> ...
>   b.b = 1;

I too wondered why this wasn't used.  It's ANSI C, it is clear, concise and 
the *compiler* worries about how many bits are used, not the programmers.

It's certainly not too late to change the flags bits again.

-A.