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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:

Jason> Perhaps we should add an attribute to suppress the base padding
Jason> optimization so that people don't have to jump through these hoops.

I think for Java the hoops are a temporary thing.  It would make sense
for us to do the base padding optimization.  We just happened to find
this at the wrong time of the development cycle, so we need a quick
fix.

Tom