Help with bit-field semantics in C and C++

[David Carlton]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:17 -0700, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> said:

> The standard is just plain not clear here.  There's nothing that says
> definitively what should happen, either with the conversion or with
> the subsequent use, assuming that conversion to a value outside the
> enum range is permitted.

But that last assumption isn't correct, is it?  I don't see how that's
consistent with 7.2p9: it talks about "the resulting enumeration
value", which should surely mean that a value outside the enum range
_isn't_ permitted.

David Carlton
david.carlton@sun.com