GCC endless loop for store_bit_field with alignment 0

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:02:20PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	Why are such large alignments necessary?  The largest alignment
> that one ever needs is BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT ...

False.  The largest alignment that the *compiler* ever needs is
BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT.  The user may well have reasons to want to align
things on cache lines, or pages, or super-pages, or ...


r~