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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: john smith <wempwer@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where does C standard mention alignment requirements as written in gcc manual?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818155042.GC30482@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKmQUfai7NdLwiQRQ-0Nd4biPjyBgMp46K3WhO7xOn=Oi4zLLw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:04:28PM +0200, john smith wrote:
> In gcc manual it says:
> 
> "Note that the alignment of any given struct or union type is required
> by the ISO C standard to be at least a perfect multiple of the lowest
> common multiple of the alignments of all of the members of the struct
> or union in question."
> 
> Where exactly is this requirement mentioned in C standard? I was
> looking for it in both C99 and C11 drafts and couldn't find it.

C99 6.7.2.1/12 ?


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18 15:04 john smith
2015-08-18 15:50 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2015-08-18 15:57   ` john smith
2015-08-18 16:25     ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-08-18 16:28     ` Segher Boessenkool

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