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Re: g++ 3.1 EH broken for irix6.5
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: g++ 3.1 EH broken for irix6.5
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 01 17:45:52 EDT
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
However, if we used to give it 8 bit alignment, then we have just
broken the ABI. If nothing else, `__alignof__' will now return a
different value.
I'm not at all convinced there *is* an "ABI" saying what alignment we have
to give to packed structures. They are very rarely used in C.