> You basically need to write the equivalents of OOP getters and setters to really keep the code tidy. I thought that was the entire purpose of the bitfield, t

> You basically need to write the equivalents of OOP getters and setters to really keep the code tidy. I thought that was the entire purpose of the bitfield, to give you a clean (visual and operations) way to access the field: mybitfield.fieldname = value