[LLVMbugs] [Bug 2724] New: problem with endianness of bitfields

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http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2724

           Summary: problem with endianness of bitfields
           Product: tools
           Version: trunk
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: llvm-gcc
        AssignedTo: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
        ReportedBy: jay.foad at antixlabs.com
                CC: llvmbugs at cs.uiuc.edu


Consider this code:

$ cat bf.c
struct {
        unsigned char a:4;
        unsigned char b:4;
} foo = { 15, 0 };

If I compile it with GCC 4.2.1 built for mips-elf, in both big- and
little-endian modes, I get this:

$ objdir-4.2.1-mips/gcc/cc1 -meb -quiet -o - bf.c | grep -A1 ^foo
foo:
        .byte   240
$ objdir-4.2.1-mips/gcc/cc1 -mel -quiet -o - bf.c | grep -A1 ^foo
foo:
        .byte   15

So in big-endian mode the first field in the structure occupies the most
significant bits in the byte; in little-endian mode it occupies the least
significant bits.

However, using llvm-gcc (built from svn at revision 55368), I get this:

$ ~/llvm/objdir-gcc-svn-mips/gcc/cc1 -meb -quiet -o - bf.c | grep -A1 ^foo
foo:
        .byte   15                      # 0xF
$ ~/llvm/objdir-gcc-svn-mips/gcc/cc1 -mel -quiet -o - bf.c | grep -A1 ^foo
foo:
        .byte   15                      # 0xF

This means that big-endian MIPS code built with llvm-gcc won't interwork with
code built with GCC.


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