-malign-natural for Linux PPC64 and AIX

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi David (Geoff),

I noticed that Darwin, AIX and if I am reading the file right LinuxPPC 64 
have all adopted the double aligned to 4 while long long int aligned to 8 
(at least based on the comments in the relevant rs6000/*.h files in gcc 
3.3).

This presents a problem interfacing to the component model of 
OpenOffice.org.  

Luckily the Mac OSX version of gcc has added a command
line switch to the compiler -malign-natural that that nicely allows both
doubles and long long ints to be aligned to 8 (i.e the natural alignment 
based on size).  This type of alignment is used by Linux PPC32 
(sysvr4.h?).

If I were to create a patch to allow -malign-natural to work as it does 
under MacOSX gcc version,  for both AIX and Linux PPC64 would you be 
willing to include it in some future release?

Thanks,

Kevin