On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:27:03PM +0200, Marek Polacek wrote:
> In this PR the issue is that we reject (valid) code such as
> _Alignas (long long) long long foo;
> with -m32, because we trip this condition:
>
> alignas_align = 1U << declspecs->align_log;
> if (alignas_align < TYPE_ALIGN_UNIT (type))
> {
> if (name)
> error_at (loc, "%<_Alignas%> specifiers cannot reduce "
> "alignment of %qE", name);
>
> and error later on, since alignas_align is 4 (correct, see PR52023 for
> why), but TYPE_ALIGN_UNIT of long long is 8. I think TYPE_ALIGN_UNIT
> is wrong here as that won't give us minimal alignment required.
> In c_sizeof_or_alignof_type we already have the code to compute such
> minimal alignment so I just moved the code to a separate function
> and used that instead of TYPE_ALIGN_UNIT.
>
> Note that the test is run only on i?86 and x86_64, because we can't (?)
> easily determine which target requires what alignment.
>
> Regtested/bootstrapped on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu, ok for trunk?
Can I backport this one to 4.9?
Marek
