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Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"

From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,"gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 21:02:26 +0100
Subject: Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
References: <15718.30109.330134.410703@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <3627749515.1030124933@[192.168.0.103]> <15718.36718.368014.869038@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

Andrew Haley wrote:-

> Types with this new attribute will have unusual semantics - you can't
> have arrays of them nor take the addresses of objects with that type,
> for example.

I think you can take the address, you just can't do arithmetic on the
address if the underlying type is one of these unpadded types.

Neil.

References:
- RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: RFC: attribute "unpadded"
  - From: Andrew Haley

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