Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945971AbXBIA7g (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:59:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945966AbXBIA7g (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:59:36 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:47698 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945971AbXBIA7f (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:59:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:59:16 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Rientjes cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <45CB3B28.60102@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 615 Lines: 18 On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The C language clearly says that bitfields have implementation-defined > types. Btw, this isn't even some "theoretical discussion". LOTS of compilers do unsigned bitfields. It may even be the majority. There may (or may not) be some correlation with what the default for "char" is, I haven't looked into it. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/