Title
Volatile unnamed bit-fields
Status
cd5
Section
11.4.10 [class.bit]
Submitter
David Majnemer

Created on 2016-02-08.00:00:00 last changed 40 months ago

Messages

Date: 2017-11-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (November, 2017)

Change 11.4.10 [class.bit] paragraph 2 as follows:

A declaration for a bit-field that omits the identifier declares an unnamed bit-field. Unnamed bit-fields are not members and cannot be initialized. An unnamed bit-field shall not be declared with a cv-qualified type. [Note: An unnamed bit-field is useful for padding...
Date: 2018-03-15.00:00:00

[Accepted as a DR at the March, 2018 (Jacksonville) meeting.]

According to 11.4.10 [class.bit] paragraph 2, unnamed bit-fields are not members, but there does not appear to be a prohibition against their being declared volatile. Is this intended?

History
Date User Action Args
2020-12-15 00:00:00adminsetstatus: dr -> cd5
2018-04-11 00:00:00adminsetstatus: tentatively ready -> dr
2018-02-27 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg5866
2018-02-27 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> tentatively ready
2016-02-08 00:00:00admincreate