[Bug c/10333] typeof (bitfield) is accepted but doesn't work

[schlie at comcast dot net]

------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net  2005-01-17 05:52 -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> If someone complained 6 months after the change and right after 3.4.0 was released I would not 
have a 
> problem, but a year and a release later and the change was done on purpose I don't feel like this 
should 
> change (now I don't have the last word, only the release manager does).  This is unlike most 
regressions 
> where they were not done on purpose but this one was and nobody even raised anything right after 
> wards or even close to the release of 3.4.0 as being a regression then.  Also look at the date at which 
> this bug opened, nobody complained about doing it differently than being rejected. (In total, over 7 
> months have gone by the time it was closed, more enough time for gcc developers to say something 
> and why and how typeof of a bitfield should work).
> 
> One more thing, one year and a release for a change is too much time in any real code development 
to 
> change your mind and the sytanx of something.

Understood, although it does seem like an otherwise needless incompatibility between GCC's
C and C++ implementation?


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10333