Accessing bit-field in C by its address

Question

What is the reason behind not allowing to access a bit field in C using its address, is it cause it might not be an address that is not system word aligned ..? or as it does

Answer 1

Bits do not have addresses. That's why you can't refer to them by address. The granularity of addressing is the char.

I guess the reasoning is that the language was design to match the architecture it targeted, and I know of no machine which allows addressing of individual bits.