> Btw, I put things in stor-layout.c exactly to allow a langhook > eventually controlling things for the bitfield representative. > Mind adding one that simply disables them completely for Ada? > Or maybe, for selected record types, so that we do > > if (lang_hooks.types.lower_bitfield_layout (rli->t)) > finish_bitfield_layout (rli->t); > > ? Letting the FE decide when to punt is certainly better than > trying to figure it out from stor-layout.c code. I suppose > for types that are supposed to interoperate with C / C++ using > the C / C++ rules makes sense (I suppose there is sth like > C/C++ interoperability with Ada).
Yes, there is C/C++ interoperability in Ada. But GNAT's policy is to be compatible with C/C++ by default, so I'd rather not deviate from the common code for such a central thing as record layout if we can avoid it. -- Eric Botcazo