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Re: g++ 3.1 EH broken for irix6.5


On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 11:44:22AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     Now, we also need some way to affect alignment as we did before.  The
>     trick is that if we see attribute aligned all by itself, it should be
>     ignored unless the alignment is greater than the natural alignment.
> 
> But the key is what is "natural" alignment.

Huh?  Why *of course* it would be whatever we would have given
the structure if the user had done nothing to intervene.

> and perhaps we can even define alignment of zero as being the maximum
> possible alignment consistent with "packing" and only allow it when the
> type is also packed.

That's just confusing.


r~


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