Our previous approach of creating a union from individual special
integer bitfields leads to undefined values because only one member of a
union can be active at any given time. Compilers have finally caught up
with us on that and have started removing "no-op" writes to members.
The primary user of the special integer bitfield unions is
qv4compileddata_p.h in qtdeclarative. We want our on-disk format of
QML compilation units to be platform agnostic and space efficient.
Pick-to: 5.15 6.2 6.3
Task-number: QTBUG-99545
Change-Id: I24847bda2c364eb8ba75f074cde2a9bec25ced06
Reviewed-by: Fabian Kosmale <fabian.kosmale@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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