Super agree. I read up on bit fields [0] a while ago and some of the details about them are bonkers: > Multiple adjacent bit-fields are usually packed together

Super agree. I read up on bit fields [0] a while ago and some of the details about them are bonkers: > Multiple adjacent bit-fields are usually packed together (although this behavior is implementation-defined) > The special unnamed bit-field of size zero can be forced to break up padding. > int b:3; may have the range of values 0..7 or -4..3 in C > on some platforms, bit-fields are packed left-to-right, on others right-to-left I wouldn't touch them unless I absolutely had to, and knew I could guarantee compiler and platform. [0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/bit_field https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/bit_field