[Bug target/38496] Gcc misaligns arrays when stack is forced follow the x8632 ABI

["joseph at codesourcery dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Comment #20 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2008-12-16 00:09 -------
Subject: Re:  Gcc misaligns arrays when stack is forced
 follow the x8632 ABI

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, whaley at cs dot utsa dot edu wrote:

> If you thought the standard adopted by LSB was the wrong
> one, you should have participated in the process and fixed it.

Nonsense.  It's not the responsibility of the GCC community or any of its 
members to correct the misconceptions of any or all third parties, and 
never had been.  There is no more responsibility to correct LSB's mistakes 
than to correct misconceptions about the ABI written in a random webpage, 
student project or magazine article.  Both have exactly the same status as 
irrelevant to GCC unless and until GCC chooses to treat them as relevant.  
Millions of people write huge amounts of inaccurate information about 
things they don't understand and those who understand them have no 
responsibility to correct the information; the LSB and the IA32 GNU/Linux 
ABI is just one random such case among millions, with no special status.


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