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Store 8 bits in the same byte then ๐
Wrong direction!
Store only bits using word-length ints (32 bits in most modern architectures), and program everything to do math using arrays of 32 int-bits to numbers!
Oh man! That took me down memory lane!
I once had to reverse engineer a database to make an invoice integration. They had an int named flags. It contained all status booleans in the entire system. Took me a while to figure that one out.
We've all been there, friend. The bit arrays can't hurt you now.