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

[Mark Mitchell]

Richard Henderson wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:48:03PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>Are there any other cases where TYPE_PRECISION != GET_MODE_PRECISION?
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>Bit fields.  In that case we really do want to do masking.
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OK. 

That seems like something that could, in theory, move into FIELD_DECLs, 
then.  I have no idea if that would be worth the bother.

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