Re: c/7873: arm-linux-gcc fails when assigning address to a bit field

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:05, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > python2.3 now builds fine on arm-linux with this patch. It's not yet
> > checked into the 3.2 branch.
> 
> Why on earth would a real application want to put part of a pointer into a 
> bit-field?  That sounds like it is highly non-portable.

I think Matthias is actually talking about a different bug.  The Python
2.3 build failure was caused by the problem with conditional returns
having the wrong length attribute.

p.