PR 19893 & array_ref bug

[Mark Mitchell]

Joe Buck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
>>The simplest solution would probably be to ignore __aligned__ attributes
>>completely when we have an array.  Or to do the change you suggested for
>>the vector tests and have the attribute attached to the array and not
>>the element type.
> 
> 
> Another possibility is to treat the alignment attribute as applying to the
> array as a whole (that is, the array is aligned to a multiple of 16 bytes,
> but the elements aren't), perhaps with a warning that this use is
> deprecated.  I propose this because the tests suggest that this use is
> common enough that it appears in tests.

If there is a lot of code out there that does this, that might indeed be 
necessary, ugly though it would be.

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