alignment test case

[Jeff Sturm]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > I can't see any way to fix this without fixing the C++ problem.  Well,
>  > we could rewrite gcj to use the new ABI, but that's a long way down
>  > the road.
>
> Actually there might be another way: use __attribute__((aligned)) on
> java.lang.Object.  Then a subclass can never be more aligned than its
> superclass.  Wastes memory, though.

I thought that with hash synchronization, boehm-gc always allocates on an
8-byte boundary anyway?  Would aligning Object really waste memory?

Jeff