Bug in 4.2Bsd C compiler
Spencer W. Thomas
thomas at utah-gr.UUCP
Mon Jul 16 16:21:21 AEST 1984
Index: lib/ccom 4.2BSD
Description:
When casting an unsigned bit field to a signed integer, sign extension
is done.
Repeat-By:
cc -S the following program. Note the ext instructions. Note also that
this problem does not appear for full size unsigned ints.
main()
{
int i;
unsigned short j;
struct {
unsigned int a : 3;
} a;
i = a.a;
i = (int)a.a;
i = j;
i = (int)j;
}
The (edited) output follows:
_main:
extzv $0,$3,_a,-4(fp)
extv $0,$3,_a,-4(fp)
movzwl -6(fp),-4(fp)
movzwl -6(fp),-4(fp)
ret
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