Re: what is : ?

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang ultim net>]

La plume légère, à Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:18:51PM +0900, heure d'inpiration,
"ÀÌÀç±Ç" écrivait en ces mots:
>   guint active : 1;
>   guint draw_indicator : 1;
>
>   GdkWindow *event_window;
> };
> in here,
> I wonder how to use : .
> I have never seen this operator before.

a ':' in a struct permits to specify that the element specified on the left
will take a specified amount of bits, instead of taking sizeof (type).
I guess it permits to reduce memory usage by a few bytes... But I don't think
it's really useful anymore.


Wolfgang
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