standard or not?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 25, 2003, Israel Fdez Cabrera <israel@seg.inf.cu> wrote:

> int _val : 2;

> he told me that the number after the identifier refers to the number
> of bits the variable will have. I tested this in gcc 3.2 and it
> didn't worked.

It works only for members of structs or unions, and it's a C and C++
standard feature.  If it works in other compilers for non-members,
it's an extension.

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