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Re: biggest alignment for sysv4.h altivec
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 08 Mar 2002 15:16:39 -0800
- Subject: Re: biggest alignment for sysv4.h altivec
- References: <3F28B100-32E7-11D6-B1D1-000393750C1E@redhat.com>
Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> writes:
> On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Geoff Keating wrote:
>
> > Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> >> obvious.
> >
> > Not obvious to me.
>
> this is for the sysv4.h header file, not just for altivec.
>
> do you want me to change BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT to 128 for every
> sysv4.h variant?
I would look at it the other way. Why should BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT
differ? It doesn't change when we switch on -msoft-float, even though
if we don't have hardware doubles then we don't need 64-bit alignment.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>