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Re: powerpc gcc alignment problem



On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:23:36 -0500 
 David Edelsohn <dje%watson.ibm.com@localhost> wrote:

 >      Enabling STRICT_ALIGNMENT has much more severe impact and
 > consequences than you seem to understand.  It will change GCC's behavior
 > in an incompatible way with previous releases of GCC on NetBSD and will
 > make NetBSD incompatible with all other GCC PowerPC targets, including AIX
 > and Linux/PPC.

Ah, okay, that's what I wanted to know (hence my previous warning; make sure
it doesn't have side-effects, like changing padding of structure members,
etc...)

Pardon me, I'm just used to the Alpha world too much, I guess :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>




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