From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-26 9e59de9: Use GCALIGNED properly for GCC
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:11:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkTykWZp3P2EnVjiN-xPMKDMH9rKFyhTx1gC1exQbcOy3w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr2t6xbbe.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Fr., 10. Nov. 2017 um
19:03 Uhr:
> >>> union gcaligned_foo { struct foo s; int64_t gcaligned; };
> >> Are int64_t necessarily aligned on multiples of 8 on 32bit platforms?
> > No, unfortunately.
>
> That was my impression as well.
>
> > That does not work either, alas, as C11 says 'alignas (8)' is an error
> when
> > the natural alignment of the object is less than 8. This is one of the
> > problems that we have encountered in earlier attempts to fix this bug.
> 'char
> > alignas (8)' avoids this problem.
>
> I don't follow: the natural alignment for `char` is definitely less than
> 8, so if "'alignas (8)' is an error when the natural alignment of the
> object is less than 8", how can "char alignas (8)" avoid the problem?
>
>
It's the other way round: alignas(8) is an error when the natural alignment
of the object is *greater* than 8.
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2017-11-09 23:31 ` emacs-26 9e59de9: Use GCALIGNED properly for GCC Glenn Morris
2017-11-10 7:10 ` martin rudalics
2017-11-10 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 8:26 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-10 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 16:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-10 17:58 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-10 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-10 18:11 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-11-10 19:19 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-10 20:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-10 20:45 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-11 7:08 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-11 7:57 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-11 8:34 ` martin rudalics
2017-11-11 8:50 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-11 9:46 ` martin rudalics
2017-11-11 8:33 ` martin rudalics
2017-11-13 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2017-11-13 18:45 ` martin rudalics
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