Re: [PATCH] Fix PRs 52080, 52097 and 48124, rewrite bitfield expansion, enable the C++ memory model wrt bitfields everywhere

[Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>]

> 1. is easy, see patch below.  2. is much harder - we need to
> compute the bit-offset relative to the bitfield group start,
> thus in get_bit_range we do
>
>   /* Compute the adjustment to bitpos from the offset of the field
>      relative to the representative.  */
>   offset = size_diffop (DECL_FIELD_OFFSET (field),
>                         DECL_FIELD_OFFSET (repr));
>   bitoffset = (tree_low_cst (offset, 1) * BITS_PER_UNIT
>                + tree_low_cst (DECL_FIELD_BIT_OFFSET (field), 1)
>                - tree_low_cst (DECL_FIELD_BIT_OFFSET (repr), 1));
>
> and we cannot generally assume offset is zero (well, maybe we could
> arrange that though, at least we could assert that for all fields
> in a bitfield group DECL_FIELD_OFFSET is the same?).

I'm skeptical.

> Any suggestion?  Apart from trying to make sure that offset will
> be zero by construction?  Or by simply not handling bitfields
> properly that start at a variable offset?

Computing the offset in stor-layout.c and storing it in DECL_INITIAL?

> The finish_bitfield_representative hunk implements the fix for 1.,
> the rest the proposed zero-by-construction solution for 2.

Thanks!

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Eric Botcazou