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Re: attribute aligned(4) ignored

On Tue, 25 Jul 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: 
... the struct maintains its 8-byte alignment even though nothing
inside of it requires 8-byte alignment any more.


When I try that with a powerpc-eabi compiler, it appears to generates
a struct with a size of 12 bytes and an alignment of 4 bytes.  Do you
not see that with a Darwin compiler?  What target are you configuring
for?  What sources are you using?

This is a powerpc-darwin specific issue I believe. The Darwin ABI states (roughly) that doubles have 4-byte alignment, unless they are the first element of a structure (in which they have 8-byte alignment). I think this is a holdover from AIX compatibility.

It is my guess that this ABI rule is overruling the user request, but I don't really know how to go about verifying this, or working around it :(

-Chris

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