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Re: patch - gcc-4.0 not c99 conforming when assigning scalar values to boolean bitfields


On Fri, 31 Mar 2005, Geoffrey Keating wrote:

> Huh!  Yes, it does say that.  That would certainly solve this problem.
> 
> Do we want to simply do what TC2 says?  It's not like oversized _Bool
> bitfields are very useful, and it'll save a DR...

I think a DR is needed in any case before the relevant proprietary 
testsuite test can be marked DISPUTED.  I don't think we considered _Bool 
bit-fields when producing DR#262 (it was one of 36 DRs considered at a 
single UK C Panel meeting, of which we sent 33 to WG14 - we only discussed 
those someone found controversial).  N970 just says "Accept suggested TC." 
on that DR, suggesting it was thought completely straightforward and 
no-one noticed the _Bool bit-field interaction in the subsequent 
discussion of _Bool bit-fields.  I'll raise the question with the 
reflector and produce a DR as necessary.

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