DATA_ALIGNMENT vs. DECL_USER_ALIGNMENT

Ulrich Weigand weigand@immd1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Thu Apr 10 21:07:00 GMT 2003


Robert Dewar wrote:

> What does it mean "I do not know that they are in fact 1-byte aligned".
> All variables (other than bit fields) are 1-byte aligned.

What I meant is, "I do not know that these variables are *not* 
guaranteed to be 2-byte aligned like all others, because for
these variables the front-end has overriden the back-end's
usual minimum 2-byte alignment."

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  weigand@informatik.uni-erlangen.de



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