C++ ABI: Reuse of tail padding

[Erik Schnetter]

Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com> wrote:
>
> We have a problem here.
> 
> Intel's compiler does not pack things into the tail padding.
> 
> Neither, I expect, does HP's.

It seems to me that an ABI regression checker should not only compare 
gcc 3.3 and gcc 3.2, but also gcc, icc, and aCC.  If the aim is to be 
portable across vendors, one might as well check that.

-erik

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