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Re: Make max_align_t respect _Float128

From: Marek Polacek <polacek at redhat dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, fweimer at redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:29:35 +0200
Subject: Re: Make max_align_t respect _Float128
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Well, the patch could use __SIZEOF_FLOAT128__ just as well as __i386__
> > (the effect would be an extra union member
> 
> s/union/struct/. Though I've always wondered why it is a struct and not a
> union. Maybe change it to union while we're doing an ABI change anyway?

Yeah, me too.  The initial implementation is here
<https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-11/msg00841.html> but I don't see any
comments wrt max_align_t being a struct or a union there.

	Marek

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