Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb

Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09T01:11:24Z

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> Maybe you should read my first post, we're talking about gcc's behavior
> here, not the C standard.

Give it up, David.

Even gcc DOES DIFFERENT THINGS! Have you even read the docs?

By default it is treated as signed int but this may be changed by
the -funsigned-bitfields option.

So even for gcc, it's just a default. I think you can even change the
default in the spec file.

Linus