Alignment not supported?

David Malcolm dmalcolm@redhat.com
Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2017


On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 19:22 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * David Malcolm:
> 
> > Hence all of this pre-existing logic for setting the alignment of a
> > type is implemented with the c-family front-end code, which isn't
> > available from libgccjit.
> 
> Ah, I assumed it was a c-family target.
> 
> > Alternatively, it might make more sense to go with this earlier API
> > idea:
> > 
> > extern gcc_jit_type *
> > gcc_jit_type_set_alignment (gcc_jit_type *type,
> >                             int alignment);
> > 
> > or similar ("make_aligned" ?  "add_alignment" ?)
> > 
> > I think I prefer the latter approach, as it makes it explicit in
> > client
> > code linkage metadata what functionality it's using,
> 
> It's also more type-safe and self-documenting.  Although “int”
> probably isn't exactly the right type here.

"unsigned int" ?




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