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Re: PR 6212
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: rth at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 7 May 02 18:37:54 EDT
- Subject: Re: PR 6212
> Say you have an object whose type is 1-byte integer
> with a user-specifed alignment of 32 bits. What do you do?
new = build_type_copy (char_type_node);
TYPE_ALIGN (new) = 32;
I don't believe we support such a thing.
Why are you creating a record type? Surely that's the pain
you're saying you'll have converting to and from the new type.
Why create *any* extra type? Even if the above can be made to work, why
have the conversions?
And what about if the type is a record type and the object is that record type
with a different alignment? You can't simply build a copy of that type
since DECL_CONTEXT will be wrong on the (now shared) fields.