On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
So if ix86_data_alignment wants to return 256 for some variable,
then it seems to me that BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT should be 256.
What if the object format doesn't allow recording alignments that
high? For example, DJGPP's coff format can only record alignments up
to 2**4 (16) bytes, but 256 bits is 2**5 (32) bytes.
So BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT > MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT. That's a logical
contradiction. Bummer.
min (256, MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT)?
For ELF, this would be 256, good. For pecoff, that would be smaller.
