Re: [PATCH] max3100 driver

[Ben Pfaff]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I do have a question though: what does a signed bitfield of 1 mean?
> I mean.. the variables are "int", so signed.... where will the compiler
> store the sign bit???

Whether a bit-field declared as type "int" is signed or unsigned
is compiler implementation-defined.  As C99 6.7.2 says (there is
similar text in C89):

     ...for bit-fields, it is implementation-defined whether the
     specifier int designates the same type as signed int or the
     same type as unsigned int.

Thus, it is never a good idea to declare a bit-field as plain
"int".  Declare it as "signed int" or "unsigned int" instead.
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