> To Martin: So I disagree. The gc header is not responsible for > alignment in the first place, but to propagate it, correctly.
I think we are in agreement in this respect. That's the whole point of the long double: to make the gc head's alignment the maximum alignment on that platform > And this fails miserably (in principle) since years. Here I agree. In principle, it works fine - it is just perhaps incomplete. > Proposal: We should use a simple construct that makes the > gc header size simply a multiple of 8 or 16, whatever needed. > Even a byte array would be ok. How would you implement that? In particular, how do you determine what is needed? > But please no long double :-) Well, the long double needs to stay, as for some platforms, long double is indeed the type with the maximum alignment. I propose to add another (regular) double into the union. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
