Re: [cxx-abi-dev] __base_class_type_info offset_flags

[Daveed Vandevoorde <daveed@xxxxxxx>]

Kerch Holt wrote:
> Daveed Vandevoorde wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 06:35  PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > [...]
> > >     Note:
> > >
> > >     In an ABI for a machine with 32-bit addresses, the offset 
> > > becomes a
> > >     32-bit field, and the flags are in the low-order byte of a second
> > >     32-bit field.
> > >
> > > I think we should remove the note.
> > I'm not sure I agree.
> > > First, G++ does not honor the note; it just uses "long" on all
> > > platforms.
> > What do the other compilers do (HP? Intel?)?
> HP also uses "long" for the __offset_flags field.
Clark Nelson wrote:
> Intel's implementation initially honored the note. When we discovered 
> that
> G++ didn't, we swore for a bit, then relaxed to what we guessed would 
> be the
> inevitable -- thereby making it more probably inevitable, I suppose.

Oh well.  I guess the decision is made then.

	Daveed