bitfield and gcc

I wonder if somewhere in Postgres source "we" are relying on the GCC 
"correct behaviour" regarding the read-modify-write of bitfield in
structures.

Take a read at this https://lwn.net/Articles/478657/

sorry if this was already mentioned.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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