[Mingw-users] Making a bit field using mingw32

[Robert L. <rl...@gd...>]

Hi,
I am trying to make an unsigned short int only 8 bits rather than 16
bits.
I've used

	unsigned short int myInt : 8;

When I compile with mingw I get an error.  The compiler gives me a parse
error before ':'.
Does mingw know how to do this?
Thanks in advance,
Bobby