cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxpreg.h

Bruce Evans bde at zeta.org.au
Sun Apr 6 06:26:24 PDT 2003


On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 02:16:07PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > This gives undefined behaviour and thus produces random code if it is
> > compiled by a C compiler (unless Bool_t happens to be u_int8_t).  From
> > n869.txt:
> >
> >        [#8]  A  bit-field  shall have a type that is a qualified or
> >        unqualified version of _Bool, signed int, or  unsigned  int.
> ...
> FYI, the final standard says
>
> 4  A bit-field shall have a type that is a qualified or unqualified version of _Bool, signed
>    int, unsigned int, or some other implementation-defined type.
>
> and moved it from the Semantics to the Constraints section, so a C
> compiler not supporting u_int8_t has to issue at least a diagnostic
> before producing random code :)

:-).  The wording seems a bit fuzzy.  Is there a way for applications to
determine what the implementation-defined type(s) are?

Bruce


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