From: Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:41:05 +0100 (CET)
> One problem is that it's not a new problem, GCC emitted similar code since > about forever, and still they turned up only now (well, probably because > ia64 is dead, but sparc64 should have similar problems). Indeed, on sparc64 it does do the silly 64-bit access too: wrong: ldx [%o0+8], %g2 sethi %hi(2147483648), %g1 or %g2, %g1, %g1 jmp %o7+8 stx %g1, [%o0+8] Personally I've avoided C bitfields like the plague in any code I've written.