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Archived Bit Fields

For cross platform portability, avoid using bit fields. It’s best not to use the NSArchiver class to archive any structures that contain bit fields as integers. Individual values are stored in the archives in an architecture and compiler dependent manner. In cases where archives already contain such structures, you can read a structure correctly by changing its declaration so that the bit fields are swapped appropriately



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Last updated: 2007-02-26




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