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

[Mike Stump]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 02:49  PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> Grrr...  It _is_ permitted.  The standard is perfectly clean on this 
>> issue.
>
> Pragmatically, I'd say that if there's this much disagreement among 
> people who know the standard very well

Permitted to me means must be compiled by the compiler.  The program 
must be compiled.  If you all mean something different by the word 
permitted, then, I'd ask you to use some other terminology.

If you are arguing that it violates a rule of the language, please cite 
the rule.