[PATCH] MS Bitfields for Interix

Douglas B Rupp rupp@gnat.com
Mon Sep 9 21:11:00 GMT 2002


> Also, somewhere in the release notes (perhaps the NEWS file?) there
> should be mention that the ABI has changed under these circumstances.

I cannot find a gcc/NEWS file, only an ONEWS file.

> Are MS bitfields different under Interix (compared to, say, cygwin)?
> If they are not, it would be better to put the flags in
> TARGET_SWITCHES and TARGET_DEFAULT and so on, not special-case
> Interix.
>

After talking to some Cygwin/MingW users we feel its a good long term
goal to move the option to the TARGET_* macros but premature at this time.
We want the option
to  be the default on Interix, but don't want to make this decision for
other subtargets.



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