Comment by slaymaker1907

C++ also supports this. However, you still end up needing to do a bunch of operations, the compiler just hides it from you which is why I think Chen opted not to use it.

  struct my_bitfield
  {
    uint16_t b:5;
    uint16_t g:6;
    uint16_t r:5;
  };

  bool IsEveryComponentGreaterThanOrEqual4(my_bitfield x, my_bitfield y)
  {
    return x.b > y.b && x.g > y.b && x.r > y.r;
  }