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

[Mark Mitchell]

Roger Sayle wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>Roger, I'd say that if the effecient, safe way to fix the 3.4 regression
>>is to make TYPE_PRECISION the width of the underlying type, and that
>>doesn't break anything else, that's an acceptable change, especially for
>>a release branch.
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>Sure.  I'll bootstrap and regression test your 2003-07-25 patch,
>together with some new testcases so that we'll know what to expect
>in future.
>
>Out of interest could you try compiling the example code given in
>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-08/msg01129.html with EDG and let
>me know whether it aborts or passes?
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It passes.

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