Re: [Dev-C++] using char* as bitfield

[David M. <ci...@ya...>]

Do you know how many bits you will need at compile time?

If you then use a bitset. It is part of the STL.

If you don't then you can use vector<bool> and hope your
compiler vendor
optimized it for space.

Hope this helps
David McKen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Schäfer" <ca...@kr...>
To: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:09 AM
Subject: [Dev-C++] using char* as bitfield


> hi dev-cpp-users,
>
> i want to allocate a string and then perform operations
on its bits,
> that I like to use as flags.
>
> but all the time such operation will give me an error on
types..
>
> expl: if(mystring & 0x0020) ...
>
> any thoughts?
>
>
> gruss
> /Christian                   mailto:ca...@kr...
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