The i386 abi does not align uint64_t (or double) in structures to 8 bytes, only to 4 bytes. Furthermore, the hardware does not require 8 byte alignent for cmpxchg8b, so the warning is confusing and useless.
Retain the warning for hosts (notably x86_64) where the ABI is sane, and one has to do something extraordinary to remove alignment. Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> --- configure | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 95e0a08938..163b4edee2 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -3927,6 +3927,22 @@ if compile_prog "" "" ; then atomic64=yes fi +# Test for clang atomic misalignment warning vs ABI structure misalignment. +# E.g. i386 only aligns structures to 4 bytes by default. +if test "$atomic64" = "yes" ; then +cat > $TMPC << EOF +#include <stdint.h> +struct X { uint64_t x; }; +uint64_t foo(struct X *p) { return __atomic_exchange_n(&p->x, 0, 0); } +EOF + if ! compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then + if cc_has_warning_flag "-Wno-atomic-alignment" ; then + glib_cflags="-Wno-atomic-alignment $glib_cflags" + CONFIGURE_CFLAGS="$CONFIGURE_CFLAGS -Wno-atomic-alignment" + fi + fi +fi + ######################################### # See if --dynamic-list is supported by the linker ld_dynamic_list="no" -- 2.25.1