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Re: Extensive patch for ns32k targets
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 10:08:46AM +0930, Ian Dall wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, however it may or may not help. If this macro
> tells me the alignment of the type pointed to by the pointer then that
> is not much help because integers (for example) can have any alignment
> on this achitecture.
They _may_ have any alignment, but they do a preferred alignment.
And the macro gives you that for whatever type the register is
known to contain.
Certainly this is only an optimization and the code you have is good.
r~