So true. I wish that C had a more rich way to define struct layouts and low-level representations for integral types. I really like how Ada does it: https://

So true. I wish that C had a more rich way to define struct layouts and low-level representations for integral types. I really like how Ada does it: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Representation_clauses https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Representation... If you need to read or write specialized hardware registers, being able to define a data structure with a custom representation is very nice and can save significant time and effort.