[PATCH] Add support for -funsigned-bitfields

[Renato Golin]

On 28 January 2014 21:10, Richard Smith <metafoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Compatibility with GCC is a means to an end -- we primarily aim to be
> compatible with GCC in order to make it easy for people to move code
> between GCC and Clang. Is there some particular code that relies on this?
> Is there a good reason to think it's better to implement this feature in
> Clang rather than fixing the code that relies on it?
>

IIUC, this is in GCC because it was an old RVCT feature, and it was so
probably because an ancient user needed for some obscure reason that was
only valid on a very narrow embedded context.

Maybe ARM folks can explain the rationale behind this on any modern
codebase.

cheers,
--renato
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