Re: c/7873: arm-linux-gcc fails when assigning address to a bit field

[Richard Earnshaw]

> python2.3 now builds fine on arm-linux with this patch. It's not yet
> checked into the 3.2 branch.

Why on earth would a real application want to put part of a pointer into a 
bit-field?  That sounds like it is highly non-portable.

R.