I've been a C++ programmer for almost as long, with some work in C. I discovered bitfields while writing emulators, in particular, building representations of r

I've been a C++ programmer for almost as long, with some work in C. I discovered bitfields while writing emulators, in particular, building representations of registers. I'd suspect that if you haven't run into them in embedded work, that maybe they used macros and bitmasking instead.