On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 7:16 AM Finn Thain <fth...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > Finn Thain dixit:
> >
> > >That would mean __alignof__(foo.b) == sizeof(foo.b) but that's not the
> > >case on my Linux/i686 system. 4 != 8:
> > >
> > >struct baa {
> > > int a;
> > > long long b;
> > >} foo;
> >
> > That struct is just 12 bytes for you then?
>
> Right. i686 and m68k agree on that.
On i686 (i.e. gcc -m32 on amd64):
__alignof__(long long) = 8
but
sizeof(struct baa) = 12
__alignof__(struct baa) = 4
???
Isn't the alignment of a struct the largest alignment of any of its members?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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