On alignment

[Nathan Sidwell]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> WHat I still cannot understand is why a struct that contains a double
> is 4-aligned on x86, but a double is 8-aligned.  This means that you
> cannot infer the alignment of a struct from the alignment of its
> members.  Is this really part of the multi-vendor ABI?
That packing rule is part of the i86 psABI

nathan

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