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Re: [PATCH] Remove TYPE_IS_SIZETYPE
On Fri, 11 May 2012, Olivier Hainque wrote:
>
> On May 10, 2012, at 14:00 , Richard Guenther wrote:
> > Of course the mere existence
> > of DECL_OFFSET_ALIGN complicates matters for no good reasons (well,
> > at least I did not find a good use of it until now ...).
>
> I remember an old discussion about it ... hmm ...
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-10/msg00019.html
>
> JIC that could be of use.
Of course we just recently found out that DECL_OFFSET_ALIGN is
relative to the structure start - thus for Ada bit-aligned
sturctures it is "nonsense" (it says 128 but in fact the
offset is at 1 bit alignment).
Richard.