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data alignment issue?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Josh dot Loeb at ubsw dot com, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:59:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: data alignment issue?
References: <081A0A442CFB314C928E6D785759E1BB25D702@NNYCC001PEX1.ubsgs.ubsgroup.net><16022.54981.758549.910322@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

I forgot to say: this difference in layout is because we moved to a
multi-vendor ABI, which in theory allows binary compatibility between
different C++ compiler vendors.  This new ABI packs fields of a class
more tightly than the old versions of gcc did.

Andrew.

References:
- data alignment issue?
  - From: Josh . Loeb
- data alignment issue?
  - From: Andrew Haley

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