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alignment test case
Andrew Haley writes:
> Tom Tromey writes:
> > Here's a simple test case that shows the alignment bug.
> >
> > When I run it, I get:
> >
> > fleche. ./F
> > 4294967296
> > true
> > null
> > 232300
> > true
> > maude
> >
> > This is with a pristine 3.3 build I did yesterday.
>
> Great, thanks. I'm on it.
Oops. I found the bug, and it's pretty trivial. If a superclass has
smaller alignment than a subclass -- which can happen because Object
is only 4-aligned -- my patch is wrong.
I'll commit a better patch tomorrow, one that can only *increase*
alignment, not *decrease* it.
Andrew.