Title
“plain” long long bit-fields
Status
c++11
Section
11.4.10 [class.bit]
Submitter
Mike Miller

Created on 2008-11-07.00:00:00 last changed 131 months ago

Messages

Date: 2010-08-23.00:00:00

[Voted into WP at August, 2010 meeting.]

Date: 2010-02-15.00:00:00

Proposed resolution (February, 2010):

Change 11.4.10 [class.bit] paragraph 3 as follows:

...It is implementation-defined whether a plain (neither explicitly signed nor unsigned) char, short, int or, long, or long long bit-field is signed or unsigned...
Date: 2008-11-07.00:00:00

The type long long is missing from the list of bit-field types in 11.4.10 [class.bit] paragraph 3 for which the implementation can choose the signedness. This was presumably an oversight. (If that is the case, we may want to reconsider the handling of 7.3.7 [conv.prom] paragraph 3: a long long bit-field that the implementation treats as unsigned will — pending the outcome of issue 739 — still promote to signed long long, which can lead to unexpected results for bit-fields with the same number of bits as long long.)

History
Date User Action Args
2014-03-03 00:00:00adminsetstatus: fdis -> c++11
2011-04-10 00:00:00adminsetstatus: wp -> fdis
2010-11-29 00:00:00adminsetstatus: dr -> wp
2010-08-23 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2917
2010-08-23 00:00:00adminsetstatus: ready -> dr
2010-03-29 00:00:00adminsetstatus: review -> ready
2010-02-16 00:00:00adminsetmessages: + msg2547
2010-02-16 00:00:00adminsetstatus: drafting -> review
2009-03-23 00:00:00adminsetstatus: open -> drafting
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