Bit Fields에 대해서 궁금한 게 좀 있었는데
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아래의 force alignment 부분은 좀 유의해야겠습니다.
unsigned : 0; // Force alignment to next boundary.
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C/C++ Language Reference
C++ Bit Fields
Classes and structures can contain members that occupy less storage than an
integral type. These members are specified as bit fields. The syntax for
bit-field member-declarator specification follows:
declaratoropt : constant-expression
The declarator is the name by which the member is accessed in the
program. It must be an integral type (including enumerated types). The
constant-expression specifies the number of bits the member occupies in
the structure. Anonymous bit fields — that is, bit-field members with no
identifier — can be used for padding.
Note An unnamed bit field of
width 0 forces alignment of the next bit field to the next type boundary,
where type is the type of the member.
The following example declares a structure that contains bit fields:
struct Date
{
unsigned nWeekDay : 3; // 0..7 (3 bits)
unsigned nMonthDay : 6; // 0..31 (6 bits)
unsigned nMonth : 5; // 0..12 (5 bits)
unsigned nYear : 8; // 0..100 (8 bits)
};
The conceptual memory layout of an object of type Date is shown
in Figure 8.2.
Figure 8.2 Memory Layout of Date Object
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Note that nYear is 8 bits long and would overflow the word
boundary of the declared type, unsigned int. Therefore, it is begun at
the beginning of a new unsigned int. It is not necessary that all bit
fields fit in one object of the underlying type; new units of storage are
allocated, according to the number of bits requested in the declaration.
Microsoft Specific
The ordering of data declared as bit fields is from low to high bit, as shown
in Figure 8.2.
END Microsoft Specific
If the declaration of a structure includes an unnamed field of length 0, as
shown in the following example,
struct Date
{
unsigned nWeekDay : 3; // 0..7 (3 bits)
unsigned nMonthDay : 6; // 0..31 (6 bits)
unsigned : 0; // Force alignment to next boundary.
unsigned nMonth : 5; // 0..12 (5 bits)
unsigned nYear : 8; // 0..100 (8 bits)
};
the memory layout is as shown in Figure 8.3.
Figure 8.3 Layout of Date Object with Zero-Length Bit Field
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The underlying type of a bit field must be an integral type, as described in
Fundamental
Types in Chapter 2.