Re: c/7873: arm-linux-gcc fails when assigning address to a bit field
> 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.
>
Then why did he quote the pointer-in-bitfield patch?
R.
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