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Re: GCC endless loop for store_bit_field with alignment 0
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC endless loop for store_bit_field with alignment 0
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:18:17 -0700
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <geoffk@cygnus.com> <200008110002.UAA23970@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:02:20PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> Why are such large alignments necessary? The largest alignment
> that one ever needs is BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT ...
False. The largest alignment that the *compiler* ever needs is
BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT. The user may well have reasons to want to align
things on cache lines, or pages, or super-pages, or ...
r~