Re: [PATCH] Additional features for -fms-extensions

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Oct 30, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Schönbeck, Andreas wrote:

> /*
>   Results:
>
>   GCC (3.4.2):
>     test8.cxx:xx: error: cannot bind packed field `a.A::field2' to 
> `int&'
>
> */
>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> struct A
> {
>   char field1;
>   int field2;
> } __attribute__((packed));
>
> void test(int& value)
> {
> }
>
> int main()
> {
>   A a;
>
>   test(a.field2);
>
>   return 0;
> }

The reason why this error is here because the code will not work

-- Pinski