QA·C Help - 0634

	0634	[I] Bit-fields in this struct/union have not been declared explicitly as unsigned or signed.

Implementation defined		REFERENCE - ISO:C90-6.5.2.1 Structure and Union Specifiers - Semantics

Bit-fields have been defined without specifying explicit signedness.

According to the ISO:C Standard, a bit-field can only be defined with one of the following types:

int
unsigned int
signed int

In any other context, int is always implemented as a signed type. However, when used to define a bit-field, it may either be implemented as a signed type or as an unsigned type; behaviour is implementation-defined. In order to remove this uncertainty, it is better practice to define the signedness of a bit-field explicitly by specifying the type as either unsigned int or signed int.

In practice compilers frequently support bit-fields of other integer types (e.g. signed char, unsigned char). Message 0634 is generated if a struct or union is declared with any bit-field of type char, short, int, long or long long. The message is only generated once in any struct or union declaration.

For example:


/*PRQA S 553,2017,3131,3602,3621 ++*/

struct ST                               /* Message 0634 */
{
   int            a:5;
   unsigned int   b:4;
   signed int     c:3;
   int            d:4;
};

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