On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Mohamed Shafi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > During debugging in gimple dumps i found a term that is used along > with other data types - bit_size_type. > > I am getting ICEs when size of int is 32 bit and no errors when the > size of int is 16. This is for a back-end whose native size is 16bit. > > Is this any internal data type used to for representation? > What is the size of this data type? Will i be able to control the size > of this like we can for other data types?
bitsizetype is a type that can hold any values of sizetype * BITS_PER_UNIT so we can safely do bit-size calculations without overflow. This type shouldn't end up used in code though. Richard.
