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Author hfuru
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Date 2010-11-04.11:51:17
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In Python 2.7 and 3.2a3, Modules/_io/textio.c uses signed:1 bitfields.

They have value -1 or 0 in two's complement, but are not used thus here:
gcc complains of <bitfield> = 1 overflow.  If the point was that they
are assigned signed values, well, unsigned:1 is promoted to signed int.

I also fix a strange (int) cast doing (truncate flag to int) & 1.
My guess is someone shut up a compiler warning about the above,
by cleaning up in the wrong place.  I kept a cast in case that's
not it, and some compiler would get noisy anyway.

There are possibly-signed 1-bit fields Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes_test.c:
struct BITS too, but I don't know what that code is for.  It does not
specify signedness of the bitfields, which (as with char) makes it the
compiler's choice.  That's usually a bad idea, but maybe that code is
for exploring the compiler?
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