ABataev added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D40752#945571, @jdenny wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D40752#945255, @ABataev wrote:
>
> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D40752#945234, @jdenny wrote:
> >
> > > r319774 works for my current use cases.  Thanks.
> > >
> > > While we're on this topic, do you happen to know the rationale behind the 
> > > OpenMP restriction for which err_omp_union_type_not_allowed diagnoses 
> > > violations?  I googled but couldn't find the rationale.  If you would 
> > > prefer that I ask this in a different forum, would you please suggest 
> > > one?  Thanks.
> >
> >
> > You cannot map the member of the union, but you can map the whole union. 
> > Mapping of separate members is not allowed because you will definitely have 
> > troubles with overlapping memory for union members.
>
>
> Thanks for that clarification.  Is there any way to word the error message 
> "mapped storage cannot be derived from a union" to make this point clearer?  
> I'm thinking "an individual member of" instead of "derived from" would help.  
> Does that work ok?
>
> > You can try it now, there should no more error messages
>
> Yes.  Thanks.


I agree, that error message does not sound quite good. Maybe, `mapping of union 
members is not allowed`?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D40752



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