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Re: __attribute__ ((aligned)) weirdness

Andrew Haley wrote:
Piotr Wyderski writes:
> > So you have a field at offset 4. You ask for it to be 4-aligned, and
> > it jumps to offset 8.
> > > > What is going on?
> > The alignment of x means that the offset of a variable is divisible
> by x with no remainder. Each y=x*2^n (where n is natural) is
> a good alignment too, because f mod y = 0 => f mod x = 0;
> 8-aligned field is also 4-aligned. So where's the problem?

I need to know why this happens.

Could this be related? No explanation, sorry.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-02/msg00353.html

Andreas

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