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Re:A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields by eps on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:00PM (#18455037)
How is your comment even remotely relevant to the post topic?
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Re:A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields by henry_bone on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:08PM (#18455084)
Read the article. At the end the author says

> By the way it's nice to know that the USB protocol has a bit to indicate "a valid oven". I wonder when that is used.

The bit fields he uses as an example related to USB protocol implementation.

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Re:A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields by nneonneo on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:05PM (#18455070)
The post discusses bit-fields in the context of implementing some part of the USB OTG specification. Author makes a joke about USB having bits for “a valid oven”.
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