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On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:04:03AM +1000, Tony Cook wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:28:04AM +1000, Tony Cook wrote: > > neptune:perl tony$ grep alignbytes config.sh > > alignbytes='8' > > Even if I set -Dalignbytes=16, it's ignored, because of: > > #if defined(USE_CROSS_COMPILE) || defined(MULTIARCH) > # define MEM_ALIGNBYTES 8 > #else > #define MEM_ALIGNBYTES 16 > #endif > > This appears to have been this way since the dawn of (metaconfig) > time. So we should (at least) file this as a bug in RT, as it *is* a bug in our code, we don't want it to get lost, and we don't have a good idea how to fix it correctly? Nicholas Clark