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Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:25:10 +0000
- Subject: Re: Altivec + 16 byte alignment
- References: <10302112221.AA21718@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:-
> The C parser I'm working on won't use it to lay out types, since I don't
> use trees. I'll have to ensure that what stor-layout.c does (during
> lowering) is the same as what I've done. At least in an initial
> implementation.
>
> I think that's a *very* bad idea: as you say, what stor-layout.c does is
> very complex. There will be a significant amount of work to keep some other
> code in sync with it.
You may well be right. As a first shot, though, just to getting
something that works, it's going to be simplest. I'm not doing any GNU
extensions, so a lot of the complexity with attributes etc. is avoided.
And I don't have all the C++ issues. Later I'll probably get the info
from stor-layout.c.
Neil.