If you make bitfield members, and access those in an inline function, and code generation for bitfields tickles a bug, the access being in an inline function wo

If you make bitfield members, and access those in an inline function, and code generation for bitfields tickles a bug, the access being in an inline function won't help. If you code a shift-and-mask in an inline function, instead, your odds are better, same as if you made a macro for it.