On alignment

[Jason Merrill]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:37:43 +0100, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:

> Robert Dewar writes:
>  > > That packing rule is part of the i86 psABI
>  > 
>  > It's still mighty odd, and of course in Ada you have to override this rule
>  > since it conflicts with the Ada standard, which requires that the default
>  > minimum alignment of a composite be not less than the alignment of any
>  > component.
>
> It's pretty weird in C++.

It's the same in C.  Weird or not, that's what the SVR4 psABI says, so
that's what we do.

Jason