DATA_ALIGNMENT vs. DECL_USER_ALIGNMENT

[Geoff Keating]

kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

>     Well, it looks like DECL_USER_ALIGN is copied from TYPE_USER_ALIGN
>     in do_type_align (stor-layout.c), called via this call chain:
> 
> I figured it had to be something like that.  It's probably correct for C,
> but not for Ada.  Perhaps we need a new lang hook?

Is it not true in Ada that if something is a particular type, then
it has the properties (including alignment) of that type?

That sounds like a pretty fundamental part of the idea of 'type', not
language-specific.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>