Re: [arm-gnu] Access to volatile bit-fields

[zakharov@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Daniel,

Thanks a lot for the final clarification. Since you (good folks at CS,  
my hat off for the great things you are doing) are GNU contributors as  
well, do you see it making to the main GNU stream as well along with CS?

Alex

Quoting Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:54:29AM -0400, Alexander Zakharov wrote:
> > Again, we are not talking about personal or professional preferences,
> > but rather ARM ABI standard, and volatile bitfields is a pure bug in ARM
> > gcc and has to be fixed at some point and sooner it will be done sooner
> > people will switch from proprietary tool chains to GNU.
>
> This discussion is getting heated, but I think folks are losing track
> of the point.  It is an acknowledged bug, and at this point, I predict it
> will be fixed in our upcoming releases.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery