D. Ritchie Doubt

Question

Bit fields use for padding.It generally contained integer bits(signed and unsigned). But it cannot contain addresses. Does it mean bit field cannot contain a pointer ?

When integer can contain a pointer, how bit field cannot contain a pointer?Are these not contradictory?

Comments

When integer can contain a pointer,

wrong.... pointer can point to integer

 

Does it mean bit field cannot contain a pointer 

wrong.. it means pointer can not point bit-fields, 

why?

due to we can not guarantee that a bit-field start's from starting of the BYTE

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ok

but integer also made up of bytes

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but integer also made up of bytes

integer always starts from starting of the byte,

but in case of bit-fields, we can't assure it starts from starting of the byte