Re: Bit field usage

From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Bit field usage
Date	2019-11-12 10:54 -0500
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On 11/12/19 9:43 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
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> Aren't there special language rules so that it's ok to alias when one
> of the types is char or unsigned char?  Or maybe I'm confusing this
> with something else (I don't do struct mapping myself, unless paid to).

Not quite; not all of the anti-aliasing rules are symmetrical. In some
of the rules, the effective type plays a different role than the type of
the lvalue used to access it:

"An object shall have its stored value accessed only by an lvalue
expression that has one of the following types: 88)
— a type compatible with the effective type of the object,
— a qualified version of a type compatible with the effective type of
the object,
— a type that is the signed or unsigned type corresponding to the
effective type of the object,
— a type that is the signed or unsigned type corresponding to a
qualified version of the effective type of the object,
— an aggregate or union type that includes one of the aforementioned
types among its members (including, recursively, a member of a
subaggregate or contained union), or
— a character type."
(6.5p7)

Therefore, an object with any effective type can be accessed using an
lvalue of character type, but the reverse is not true. When the
effective type is a character type, there's examples of types that fit
each of the options listed in 6.5p7, but there's also many types that
don't fit any of them. For instant, "short int".

Similarly, you can alias an object which has an effective type that is
an aggregate or union type, using an lvalue of the type of one of it's
members. However, if the effective type of an object is type of one of
it's members, you cannot, in general, access it using an lvalue of that
aggregate or union type.

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Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-24 08:03 +0200
  Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-24 10:15 -0600
    Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-24 18:55 +0200
      Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-24 21:28 -0600
    Re: Bit field usage scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-10-24 17:22 +0000
      Re: Bit field usage Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-10-24 19:45 +0200
        Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-24 19:59 +0200
          Re: Bit field usage Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-10-24 20:02 +0200
            Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-24 21:29 -0600
              Re: Bit field usage Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-10-25 07:51 +0200
                Re: Bit field usage scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-10-25 15:05 +0000
        Re: Bit field usage Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-10-24 19:13 +0100
          Re: Bit field usage Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-10-24 20:54 +0200
            Re: Bit field usage Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-10-24 20:12 +0100
              Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-10-24 23:03 +0200
                Re: Bit field usage Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-10-24 22:50 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-10-25 09:18 +0200
                Re: Bit field usage Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2019-10-25 15:46 +0800
                Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-26 12:36 -0500
                Re: Bit field usage scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-10-25 15:04 +0000
                Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-26 12:40 -0500
                Re: Bit field usage Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-26 21:12 +0200
              Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-25 09:25 -0600
                Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-26 12:52 -0500
      Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-24 19:56 +0200
        Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-24 12:03 -0700
          Re: Bit field usage scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-10-24 19:40 +0000
            Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-24 22:15 +0200
            Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-24 14:16 -0700
    Re: Bit field usage Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-10-24 17:50 -0700
      Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-25 09:36 -0600
        Re: Bit field usage Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-10-27 04:54 -0700
          Re: Bit field usage Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-10-27 10:05 -0600
  Re: Bit field usage Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-26 20:15 +0200
    Re: Bit field usage Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-26 20:16 +0200
      Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-26 20:37 +0200
        Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-26 13:41 -0500
          Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-26 21:54 +0200
            Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-27 03:46 -0700
              Re: Bit field usage jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2019-10-27 12:50 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-27 06:37 -0700
              Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-10-27 13:00 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-27 07:19 -0700
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-10-27 22:30 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage Christopher Collins <ccollins476ad@gmail.com> - 2019-11-07 12:36 -0800
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-08 08:18 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage Christopher Collins <ccollins476ad@gmail.com> - 2019-11-08 10:19 -0800
                Re: Bit field usage Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-11-08 21:47 +0000
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-10 14:08 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage Christopher Collins <ccollins476ad@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 09:26 -0800
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-11 20:31 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage Christopher Collins <ccollins476ad@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 23:01 -0800
                Re: Bit field usage Christopher Collins <ccollins476ad@gmail.com> - 2019-11-11 23:25 -0800
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-12 10:54 +0100
                Re: Bit field usage Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-11-12 14:43 +0000
                Re: Bit field usage James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-11-12 10:54 -0500
                Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-11-12 19:37 +0100
              Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-27 08:36 -0500
                Re: Bit field usage already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2019-10-27 06:49 -0700
            Re: Bit field usage Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-10-27 14:23 +0100
            Re: Bit field usage Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-10-27 08:42 -0500
        Re: Bit field usage Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-26 21:06 +0200
        Re: Bit field usage Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-10-26 20:41 +0100
          Re: Bit field usage Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2019-10-27 08:29 +0100
            Re: Bit field usage David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-10-27 13:05 +0100

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