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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: : Re: [RFA] Setting long long bitfields
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je4qkab7vl.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411010116.iA11Fx03022536@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (Paul Hilfinger's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:15:59 -0800")

Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> Oops, sorry: I got the problematic case backwards.  The problem is
> that a bitsize of 0 is legal, and that causes the result of your 
> suggested tweak to be officially undefined.

How can bitsize ever become zero?  Note that the original code contains a
shift by bitsize - 1, which is undefined as well in this case.

Andreas.

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