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RE: MS-style bit-field placement


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
>Sent: 14 April 2001 16:02


>> Here's a patch that makes GCC capable of placing bit-fields exactly
>> like Microsoft compilers do.  Or so it seems to me.

>> I'm a little bit unsure about whether to separate the three key
>> behaviors into different #defines, or to just have a single macro to
>> enable them all.  Opinions?  Ok to install?

  I don't have a copy of the language spec to hand, but IIRC the effects of
BITFIELD_SAME_TYPE_SIZE would contradict the standard layout rules for
bitfields, and so there should probably be some dependency of your patches
on the -ansi (and other language spec selecting) flags ?

      DaveK
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