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Re: PR 6212

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 07:55:05 +0100
Subject: Re: PR 6212
References: <10205090325.AA05893@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <20020508221113.A15338@redhat.com>

Richard Henderson wrote:-

> At minimum, PRs 2511, 3325, 3326, 3347, 5593.
> 
> At the heart of all, we mis-promote bit-fields.

And treat them as having the wrong range of values, since
so much of GCC assumes that is based upon the type, which
causes bogus or missed diagnostics, and, I'm sure, bad
optimizations or pessimizations.

Neil.

References:
- Re: PR 6212
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: PR 6212
  - From: Richard Henderson

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