Why does Rust bindgen have bitfields?

1. go

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   How does Golang deal with this? It doesn't. And to be fair, Rust doesn't either.

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   How does Golang deal with this? It doesn't. And to be fair, Rust doesn't either.

4. rust-bindgen

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   But then why does bindgen attempt to have bitfields at all. Yes, I see the unsafe but wouldn't it be "safer" to recommend exporting C helper getter/setter functions to deal with this? I actually don't understand how any crate can say they have "C-compatible" bitfields.

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