BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT on AIX 32-bit
Eric Botcazou
ebotcazou@adacore.com
Sat Jan 14 16:58:00 GMT 2006
> Why isn't this bug an incorrect use of BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT somewhere
> in the compiler?
Because you must have BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT <= STACK_BOUNDARY (or
PREFERRED_STACK_BOUNDARY) in order to be able to allocate objects with
BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT on the stack. Otherwise the offsets are not sufficiently
rounded, even if the stack register is aligned on BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT on
function entry.
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Eric Botcazou
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