From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: DATA_ALIGNMENT vs. DECL_USER_ALIGNMENT
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <or1xzvrs3y.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10304211651.AA29704@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Apr 21, 2003, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:
> So if you turn:
> T i __attribute__((align(2)));
> T j __attribute__((align(2)));
> into
> typedef T T2 __attribute__((align(2)));
> T2 i, j;
> you say we could get different code?
> I say so, yes.
> And the reason is as I said: you specify alignment for a type both for
> interface and efficiency reasons, but for an object only for the latter.
> So there is a difference in meaning between these two constructs.
But the compiler can't tell whether, when you specify alignment for a
type, you mean for interface or for efficiency, so I think it
shouldn't make an assumption that it's to be used only for the former
case like you seem to believe it should do.
--
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Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
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2003-04-21 17:25 Richard Kenner
2003-04-21 18:14 ` Jamie Lokier
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2003-04-23 5:31 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-24 6:23 ` Jason Merrill
2003-04-24 8:43 ` Geert Bosch
2003-04-24 17:48 ` Jason Merrill
2003-04-24 18:04 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-04-24 19:31 ` Jason Merrill
2003-04-24 21:32 ` Geert Bosch
2003-04-24 23:24 ` Jason Merrill
2003-04-25 2:56 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-22 15:08 Richard Kenner
2003-04-23 1:07 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-22 0:15 Robert Dewar
2003-04-22 1:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-22 0:11 Robert Dewar
2003-04-22 1:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-04-21 21:25 Richard Kenner
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2003-04-21 20:33 ` Jamie Lokier
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2003-04-21 17:05 ` Alexandre Oliva
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2003-04-18 8:59 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-17 21:41 Richard Kenner
2003-04-17 23:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-18 1:16 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-17 21:40 Richard Kenner
2003-04-17 11:56 Richard Kenner
2003-04-17 20:35 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-17 22:41 ` Geert Bosch
2003-04-17 23:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-17 10:44 Robert Dewar
2003-04-17 20:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-17 8:12 Richard Kenner
2003-04-17 8:38 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-11 22:26 Robert Dewar
2003-04-11 16:59 Robert Dewar
2003-04-11 18:49 ` Laurent Guerby
2003-04-11 16:51 Robert Dewar
2003-04-11 14:52 Robert Dewar
2003-04-11 4:45 Richard Kenner
2003-04-17 5:39 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-04-11 0:45 Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 22:43 Richard Kenner
2003-04-11 0:31 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-11 2:19 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 22:23 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 22:16 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 22:07 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 22:23 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 22:05 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 22:02 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 22:24 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-11 11:20 ` Laurent Guerby
2003-04-11 11:57 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-04-11 14:16 ` Laurent Guerby
2003-04-10 21:56 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 22:02 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 21:45 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:52 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 21:57 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-10 21:44 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:32 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 21:32 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 21:31 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:29 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 21:10 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 21:17 ` David Edelsohn
2003-04-10 21:10 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:04 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:41 ` Geoff Keating
2003-04-10 20:57 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 21:07 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 20:52 Robert Dewar
2003-04-10 20:39 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 21:00 ` Geoff Keating
2003-04-10 21:01 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 21:44 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-10 20:13 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 20:28 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 19:20 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 5:33 Richard Kenner
2003-04-10 7:20 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-09 23:31 Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 2:27 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-10 3:10 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 16:20 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 16:39 ` Geoff Keating
2003-04-10 16:44 ` Ulrich Weigand
2003-04-10 18:06 ` Richard Henderson
2003-04-08 17:47 Ulrich Weigand
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