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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Bug in 4.2Bsd C compiler
Message-ID: <1143@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 02:21:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1143
Posted: Mon Jul 16 02:21:21 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jul-84 06:24:35 EDT
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Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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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