Re: [PATCH][2.6] IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> There is no scope for a compiler to reorder the members or the bit
> fields of a structure.

The actual bit ordering is implementation-defined, though, so in effect 
the bitfield setup _does_ depend on the compiler and architecture details.

		Linus
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