> On Oct 29, 2018, at 11:18 AM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ...
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>> That said, attribute problems aren't handled perfectly consistently
>> in GCC. Some result in errors, others in warnings, and some are
>> silently ignored. I've been tracking the problems I notice in
>> Bugzilla (those with "aligned" in their title are: 87524, 84185,
>> 82914, 81566, 69502, 65055, 61939). In my view, silently ignoring
>> problems without as much as a warning is a bug. But whether they
>> should result in warnings or errors can be debated on a case by
>> case basis. For instance, it might be appropriate to give
>> an error when a negative alignment is specified but just a warning
>> when the specified alignment is less than the minimum for the symbol
>> for the target. For the case you mention I think an argument could
>> be for either, but given the check_user_alignment handling I'd say
>> an error would seem to be in line with the current practice.
>>
>> Martin
>
> Ok, I'll enter a PR.
Done. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87795
paul
