<div dir="ltr">I'm not sure what the purpose is. I agree it doesn't seem to have any effect, and the git blame comes back to the initial commit for libc++.<div>Changing the layout of `__nat` now would be an ABI break; so that's out of the question. But I have some upcoming patches that are going</div><div>to remove most usages of it.</div><div><br></div><div>@Howard, do you recall what the purpose of this was? Something to do with initializing empty structs maybe?</div><div><br></div><div>/Eric</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Li, Zeyang via cfe-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;color:rgb(36,39,41);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I was looking through clang's c++ standard library, and found this class in the shared_ptr class.</p><pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:5px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(36,39,41);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:inherit">class shared_ptr
...
private:
        struct __nat {int __for_bool_;};
...
};
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