[cxx-abi-dev] Tail padding, in sumary

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Friday, August 23, 2002 7:28 PM +0100 Nathan Sidwell <nathan at acm.org> 
wrote:

> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> > You haven't mentioned
>> >       struct A { virtual void f(); int i : 3; };
>> >       struct C { A a; int j: 2; };
>> > which should have the same layout as B. g++, intel & hp get this wrong.
>>
>> I'm sorry; I didn't understand that to be the case.
>>
>> Intel, HP -- would you please confirm that your compilers pack C::j into
>> the same byte as A::i in this case?
> No they're not doing that. All compilers report sizeof C as 12 bytes,
> leading me to believe they are packing j into bits 0,1 of byte 8.
> (Rather than bits 0,1 of byte 5.)

Ah; I see what you're saying.  If everyone is doing it that way, we should
just change the spec to reflect the way everyone is doing it, so I'll add
that to the list...

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Mark Mitchell
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