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Re: alignment test case

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, GCJ Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:03:06 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: alignment test case
References: <15992.33427.246728.634682@masala.cambridge.redhat.com><Pine.LNX.4.44.0303190950520.25285-100000@ops2.one-point.com>

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > 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?

Precisement.

Andrew.

References:
- Re: alignment test case
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: alignment test case
  - From: Jeff Sturm

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