On Mar 9, 2008, Eric Botcazou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I meant Ada can have non-integral members that are do not occupy an >> integral number of bytes.
> Right, but the middle-end shouldn't need to touch them globally, the > front-end is supposed to break up the accesses. My point is that the front-end could just generate BIT_FIELD_REF, without having to extract integral-typed words from the struct-typed object to then be able to apply BIT_FIELD_REF on them, and then go back to put the modified value back in place. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
