a bug for __builtin_offsetof operator ?

[Michael Gong]

That makes sense.

So it seems the "__builtin_offset" is just a macro. After it is 
expanded, the () around "a.a1" will cause syntax error.


Thanks.

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Love-Jensen" <eljay@adobe.com>
To: "Michael Gong" <mwgong@cs.toronto.edu>; "MSX to GCC" 
<gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: a bug for __builtin_offsetof operator ?


> Hi Michael,
>
> I think it is an issue for the same reason this is an issue:
>
> struct B { int x,y,z; };
>
> int main()
> {
>  struct B b;
>  b.x = 3; // okay
>  b.(y) = 4; // parse error
>  return 0;
> }
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>
>