Technically, C++ cannot allocate anything smaller than a char which generally 1 byte (but doesn''t have to be!)
Bitfields are really just a shorthand way of doing bit operations on a larger amount of data. As someone else pointed out, they are really only useful if you need lots of them and want to save some space.
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Thnx to: SilverMace && Anonymous
That explains it pretty good -- I think I can reduce my boolean values a ton by using integer flags -- this way I can just put one int value in my classes and AND the flags together to get the boolean settings - that should create significant savings.
The classes themselves aren''t that consuming space or time wise but if you have a 1000 or more instances of them even the tiny flaws showup big.
That explains it pretty good -- I think I can reduce my boolean values a ton by using integer flags -- this way I can just put one int value in my classes and AND the flags together to get the boolean settings - that should create significant savings.
The classes themselves aren''t that consuming space or time wise but if you have a 1000 or more instances of them even the tiny flaws showup big.
quote:Original post by silvermace
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Programmer Four - try tellling him WHY (see the title "for BEGINNERS")
We can''t all be all right all the time. For instance, you have three l''s in "telling"
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