On alignment

[Andrew Haley]

Nathan Sidwell writes:
 > 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

Thanks.  Got a link to that?

Andrew.