Minimum target alignment for a datatype

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:13:12PM -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts or opinions?  This may have impact on a  
> number of things, including any pointer alignment analysis.

MEM_ALIGN has code to deal with this.  There's no reason you can't
apply that to TYPE_ALIGN.

I suspect that this will pessimize some vectorizer output wrt 
pointers, but there's no real helping that: we'll actually be
more correct.


r~