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Re: Help with bit-field semantics in C and C++
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: David Carlton <david dot carlton at sun dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>, "'Roger Sayle'" <roger at eyesopen dot com>, "'Joe Buck'" <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:34:33 -0700
- Subject: Re: Help with bit-field semantics in C and C++
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 02:49 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
Grrr... It _is_ permitted. The standard is perfectly clean on this
issue.
Pragmatically, I'd say that if there's this much disagreement among
people who know the standard very well
Permitted to me means must be compiled by the compiler. The program
must be compiled. If you all mean something different by the word
permitted, then, I'd ask you to use some other terminology.
If you are arguing that it violates a rule of the language, please cite
the rule.