[cfe-dev] patch: boolean bitfield init

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:

> Definitely, but until that gets fixed in the front-end I'd rather
> have codegen not crash. I believe various parts of the bit-field
> handling need to be reworked but it is easier for me to evaluate
> when I can look at what works and what doesn't.

Ok.  If your patch does the right thing (produces the right code)  
please commit it.  Thanks Daniel!

-Chris

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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple.com>
> To: Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org>
> Cc: Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com>; cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:26:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] patch: boolean bitfield init
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> On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
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>> The immediate problem is that the constant being used to initialize
>> the bit-field is of type bool (this is a separate bug) even though
>> the bit-
>> field has width > 1.
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> But the size of type bool should be 8 bits, otherwise the test case is
> invalid.
> For example,
>    struct { int a:199; } b;
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> Devang
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