------- Additional Comments From ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-06-07 
18:56 -------
>  Well, you may have noticed I'm already aware of this -- otherwise I wouldn't
> have filed the report in the first place.  But the problem is the i386 is
> probably the architecture most code is primarily tested with and unfortunately
> it has quite forgiving restrictions about alignment.

The 4.0.x Ada compiler has been regularly tested on PowerPC and SPARC too (apart
from being interested in Ada, I'm also a SPARC maintainer) so it shouldn't be
that broken on non-x86 platforms.  However it is true that RISC platforms are
more demanding than x86, at least as far as Ada is concerned.

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21937

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