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Re: AIX 4.3.3 IBM C compiler patch for m4-1.4.8


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: AIX 4.3.3 IBM C compiler patch for m4-1.4.8
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:59:25 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> If it is getting the gnulib bool, then we should figure out how to
> make the gnulib bool pick a type that will work for this usage
> pattern.

I don't know any way to do this.  'bool' must promote to int, so
the only plausible candidates that can be used for bit-fields are
int and signed int.  But bool bitfields have a value 0 or 1, whereas
a signed bitfield has the value 0 or -1 (on two's complement hosts).

Admittedly this problem should be documented.  Here's a proposed patch.

2007-02-04  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * lib/stdbool_.h: Mention that bool bit-fields aren't supported.

--- lib/stdbool_.h.~1.10.~      2006-01-26 05:31:49.000000000 -0800
+++ lib/stdbool_.h      2007-02-04 09:53:04.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Written by Bruno Haible <address@hidden>, 2001.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@
 
        - You cannot assume that _Bool is a typedef; it might be a macro.
 
+       - Bit-fields of type 'bool' are not supported.  Portable code
+         should use 'unsigned int foo : 1;' rather than 'bool foo : 1;'.
+
        - In C99, casts and automatic conversions to '_Bool' or 'bool' are
          performed in such a way that every nonzero value gets converted
          to 'true', and zero gets converted to 'false'.  This doesn't work




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