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Re: -mpreferred-stack-boundary may overflow
On Oct 23, 2001, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> multiplied by BITS_PER_UNIT. Besides, it assumes `int' (the type used
>> to hold the computed alignment) is 32-bits wide, but int is not
>> guaranteed to be wider than 16 bits. I don't see much point in
> GNU Coding Standards:
> However, don't make any effort to cater to the possibility that an
> `int' will be less than 32 bits. We don't support 16-bit machines in
> GNU.
Indeed. But we may overflow on 32-bit machines too, so this doesn't
render the patch useless.
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