What is the meaning of bit fields in the C language?

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The bit field in c is related with structure member and objective is best utilization of memory. Here in instead of bytes only defined bit is consumed. within structure bit field is defined as char x:2; Means x will be allocated only two bits instead of one byte..
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The bit field in c is related with structure member and objective is best utilization of memory. Here in instead of bytes only defined bit is consumed. within structure bit field is defined as char x:2; Means x will be allocated only two bits instead of one byte.. read less
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