Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-11-10 Thread Trevor Saunders
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:36:05PM -0800, Chris Peterson wrote: On 11/6/14 10:22 AM, Jason Orendorff wrote: I guess I was a little irked that people are still tripping over this ancient document (didn't we delete that?), because I just took the time to clobber most of it and update what was

Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-11-07 Thread Philip Chee
On 21/10/2014 11:21, Xidorn Quan wrote: Hi, I read the C++ portibility guide [1], in which it is said that all bitfields should have the same type, or some compiler may mishandle the code. Is that still true for the compiler set we currently use? The compiler the doc mentioned is MSVC++8

Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-11-06 Thread Jason Orendorff
I guess I was a little irked that people are still tripping over this ancient document (didn't we delete that?), because I just took the time to clobber most of it and update what was left. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Cpp_portability_guide -j

Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Peterson
On 11/6/14 10:22 AM, Jason Orendorff wrote: I guess I was a little irked that people are still tripping over this ancient document (didn't we delete that?), because I just took the time to clobber most of it and update what was left.

About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-10-20 Thread Xidorn Quan
Hi, I read the C++ portibility guide [1], in which it is said that all bitfields should have the same type, or some compiler may mishandle the code. Is that still true for the compiler set we currently use? The compiler the doc mentioned is MSVC++8 which I believe we have dropped. Can we use

Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-10-20 Thread David Major
@lists.mozilla.org Cc: David Baron dba...@dbaron.org, s...@mozilla.org, blizz...@mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:21:21 PM Subject: About the bitfield requirement for portibility Hi, I read the C++ portibility guide [1], in which it is said that all bitfields should have

Re: About the bitfield requirement for portibility

2014-10-20 Thread Xidorn Quan
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:21:21 PM Subject: About the bitfield requirement for portibility Hi, I read the C++ portibility guide [1], in which it is said that all bitfields should have the same type, or some compiler may mishandle the code. Is that still true for the compiler