Re: Changing the word-size was: Re: eat your own dog food?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Em Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:07:30PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 02:31:06PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:15:55PM -0500, jamal escreveu:
> > > On Sat, 2008-12-01 at 19:42 -0500, jamal wrote:
> > > 
> > > In this case the tail padding should be 7.
> > > 
> > > The rules say:
> > > 1) aggregates have alignment equal to that of their most aligned
> > >   member - which happens to be 8 above
> > > 2) aggregates have sizes which are a multiple of their alignment
> > >   This may result in tail padding - the tail contains a char.
> > > 
> > > So the padding above should be 7.
> > 
> > Working on that, implementing type__most_aligned_member(), that will
> > recursively find the member that is most aligned, but then how to deal
> > with packed structs?
> 
> Should be fixed now for non-packed structs, please ACK.

Oops, I concentrated on the tail padding, have to check how we're
handling rule number 1, but now we infrastructure is there, should be
easy.

- Arnaldo
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