------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com 2005-04-17 11:04 ------- Subject: Re: [4.0/4.1 Regression] Miscompilation with __attribute ((aligned))
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, mark at codesourcery dot com wrote: > > The obvious options include: > > > > * Make a new type of larger size to match the alignment whenever e.g. an > > 8-byte-aligned-int is requested. (Probably breaks too much.) > > > > * Disallow arrays of extra-aligned types, and array references and pointer > > arithmetic on such types; either with an error, or with a warning and > > removal of > > the "aligned" attribute (in the case of arrays, attaching it to the array; > > in > > the case of pointers, causing the results of the arithmetic to have the > > ordinary > > type without alignment). > > As a C front-end maintainer, which of these options do you prefer? It > sounds like you, like me, favor the second option, but I'd like to be sure. I'd prefer the second option. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20794