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Re: alignment test case
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, GCJ Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:52:22 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: alignment test case
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I thought that with hash synchronization, boehm-gc always allocates on an
> > 8-byte boundary anyway? Would aligning Object really waste memory?
>
> A little, because every subclass would also be 8-aligned.
Oh, I see. So the subclass fields would start at offset 8, not 4, on x86?
Jeff