un-break libobjc on i386

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Sat Feb 12 11:39:00 GMT 2000


On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:53:54AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> No, I don't think it is.  BIGGEST_FIELD_ALIGNMENT is used only to
> clamp the returns from __alignof__.  If you're not using -malign-double,
> __alignof__ (double) ought to come out as 4 bytes, right?

Hmm.  I wouldn't have thought so, since __alignof__ traditionally
returns desired alignment rather than necessary alignment.  But,
surprise, it does indeed seem to be the case.

I guess the patch is ok, then.


r~


More information about the Gcc-patches mailing list