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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PPC compilers
- Message-ID: <JQWWx*b9f@yaps.rhein.de>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:30:21 +0100
- References: <4com6v$415@maureen.teleport.com> <jasonb.821098303@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- <volker.0e58@vb.franken.de> <jasonb.821177376@cs.uwa.edu.au> <volker.0e5y@vb.franken.de>
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- In article <volker.0e5y@vb.franken.de>, Volker Barthelmann writes:
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- > And, most important, You cannot declare every possible hardware registers
- > with bitfields (e.g. if one value crosses a word boundary).
-
- Mu. The ANSI Standard does not guarantee that you can do it. But then,
- virtually everything about bitfields (besides their existance) is
- implementation-defined. Thus, a compiler is free to support it, and is
- likely to do so on a machine that requires it.
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