I got this reply from upstream regarding this issue: [Dr. Werner Fink] > Beside speed there is no problem to drop the alignment. > Nevertheless it is very strange that the struct re_pattern_buffer, > the real type of regex_t, and found in /usr/include/regex.h is not > aligned within power of 2. > > There are some more alignment I've done for 1.12.0 (speed over > size). Maybe this will show similar problems.
It seem my guess about this being a speed optimization was correct. But the fact that there might be more of them make me hope for a patch from someone with access to a m68k machine, to make sure I do not upload a new version fixing only part of the problems, and thus having to do more than one upload to fix the issue. [Wouter Verhelst] > If you explicitly specify alignment like that, you disable any > automatic stuff the compiler might otherwise want to perform. Sure. I guess I wonder about why the alignment requirement isn't fulfilled when asked for the aligment of the sizeof(regex_t). Can someone with m68k test and provide the answer for these questions: What is the value of sizeof(regex_t) on m68k? What is the alignment calculated for the struct? > It is definately not a bug in the compiler to attempt to follow the > programmer's directives and to barf out if that is impossible... I am trying to understand why it is impossible. Can you explain it to me? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
