rfc: constant pool and floats

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 5:30 PM, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> 
> >Hi folks.
> >
> >The following testcase is failing on powerpc-linux as well as the 
> >embedded
> >variants.
> >
> >FAIL: tmpdir-gcc.dg-struct-layout-1/t001 c_compat_x_tst.o compile
> 
> Note Janis filed a bug for this, PR 18004.
> 
> It also happens for aligned(1) but I thought the definition of aligned
> says it never lowers the alignment and packed does that.  Maybe I 
> misread
> the documentation.

This has been broken for a long time.  See:
 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:56:26 -0700                                                                   
 From: Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>                                                               
 Subject: Re: Documentation for __aligned__ out of date?                                                 

 That is a bug in the implementation of the aligned attribute.
 Apparently one that has been around for a long time unnoticed.  I tried
 2.8.1 and it fails there also.

 If you try this with a structure type, you will see that it works as
 documented.


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Daniel Jacobowitz