From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3450 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 17:55:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 1750 invoked by uid 48); 4 Nov 2013 17:53:10 -0000 From: "ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug middle-end/58970] [4.7/4.8/4.9 Regression] internal compiler error: in get_bit_range, at expr.c:4562 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:55:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: middle-end X-Bugzilla-Version: 4.8.2 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: 4.7.4 X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00258.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58970 --- Comment #22 from Eric Botcazou --- > Eric declared negative bitpos to be a nono that the expander is not handling > well. Thus, Eric, please chime in here. Well, that's a basic sanity requirement, all the routines in expmed.c dealing with bitfields use unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT so, yes, better avoid negative values unless you really know what you're doing...