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At 1:15 PM -0400 4/29/04, Simon Glover wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>> At 7:07 PM +0200 4/29/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> >Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>> >> At 6:43 PM +0200 4/29/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>I can't see, why this patch should break t/pmc/float.t and:
>> >
>> >> Because GCC doesn't align function pointers unless you ask it to,
>> >
>> >Argh. System depend weird stuff. gcc does function aligning on x86
>> >though.
>>
>> Nope, it doesn't. I think it does on non-x86 systems, but for x86 it
>> only aligns with -O2 or higher. Go figure.
>
> Should we provide a fallback option for those platforms/compilers that
> we can't persuade to do function aligning, or is this something that
> any ANSI C compliant compiler is supposed to be able to do?
It's not guaranteed anywhere, so having a fallback is definitely in
order. It's distinctly possible we'll find compilers that flat-out
won't allow us to do this, in which case we'll need a Plan B as
fallback.
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