From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stan Cox <scox@cygnus.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: x86 alignment stuff 
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 16:39:00 -0000
Message-id: <nrra4vp32s.fsf_-_@rtl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg01030.html

>Does anybody know why we don't items in the static store on the
>x86?  Seems to me we can align stuff in the static store via
>DATA_ALIGNMENT and friends without breaking ABI compatability.
 
The x86 ABI alignment is: char (1), short (2), int/long/enum (4),
*type (4), float (4), double (4), long double (4).
double and long double are of course the interesting ones.

i386.h does not currently define DATA_ALIGNMENT.  Most targets use it
to align arrays of char on a cache line boundary.  The alpha uses to
align constants and variables to a word boundary.