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Re: PING: PATCH: Do not clear the DECL_BIT_FIELD flag (prelude toObjC fix)
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:50:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: PING: PATCH: Do not clear the DECL_BIT_FIELD flag (prelude toObjC fix)
- References: <2CF85FF2-AFB3-11D6-BF22-000393673036@apple.com>
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:25:14 -0700, Ziemowit Laski <zlaski@apple.com> wrote:
> As I said, ObjC classes must also function as C structs (e.g., 'NSObject
> *foo'); hence, the DECL_BIT_FIELD flag must still be set for bitfields.
> We could add another, ObjC-specific bitfield ornament to the FIELD_DECL
> tree (and hope that the rest of the compiler never clobbers it...), but
> they we'd be storing the same piece of information twice.
Why not just check DECL_C_BIT_FIELD?
Jason