Stable cvs version for 2.4

[Jasmine Strong]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Allen Curtis wrote:

> How about we add 1 byte which contains up to 8 bit fields?

Adding a byte will destroy the alignment.  you'd have to add a whole word.

We could have a #define to set whether we use the lsb of the address (on
aligned architectures) or an extra byte (on non-aligned architectures,
which won't care about the structure not being an exact multiple of words
anyway).

> Using bits in pointer values sounds a lot like old Mac programming.
> Caution Will Robinson....

I agree.

Jas.