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Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Fix bitfield behaviour
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt at mathematik dot uni-ulm dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:44:18 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Fix bitfield behaviour
- References: <20030414171612.28435.qmail@thales.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> bit-fields currently have several issues including some where wrong
> code is generated. Neil proposed a patch for these some time ago but
> it had to be reverted. This problem is the reason for at least the following
> PRs: 9620, 7696, 6515, 6346, 3326, 3325 and 2511. There are also XFAILing
> testcases for this problem in the testsuite.
>
> This patch fixes these PRs. Bootstrapped and regtested on x86 with
> c, c++, objc, fortran and java and on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 with c and c++.
Your patch needs to remove all the XFAILs from Neil's testcases - if any
still fail, that means the patch is incomplete.
Did your patch pass the GDB testsuite with no regressions, as well as the
GCC testsuite? It it the GDB testsuite that showed up some of the
problems with Neil's patch.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk