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Re: packed, aligned
- To: bo at sonofthor dot dk, db at zigo dot dhs dot org
- Subject: Re: packed, aligned
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:57:09 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<on an architecture where pointers must be 4-byte aligned (I think sparc is
one such architecture) can not be packed. You could organize these
>>
THat makes no sense to me. THere is no architecture in which it is not
possible to store a pointer misaligned, yes, of course reading it means
reading it in pieces and reassembling with shifts etc on some
architectures, but so what, gcc can certainly do that.