------- Additional Comments From pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu 2005-08-15
12:09 -------
Subject: Re: alignment bug in libobjc/archive.c
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> ------- Additional Comments From rassahah at neofonie dot de 2005-08-15
> 10:41 -------
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Hmm on powerpc-darwin we get:
> > a = 1, b = 3
> >
> >
> > Which is still wrong.
> You mean before or after the application of the suggested patch? Perhaps
> there may be other alignment
> constraints on powerpc-darwin than on i686-linux. The alignment with the
> ROUND-macro as i see it
> would not work with an alignment constraint any other than `alignment ==
> multiple of data size'.
> BTW: The bug is at least in gcc-2.7.2.3. I am wondering how it got along
> undetected, since the program
> with the encoding "{ii}" is an example taken from `Object Oriented
> Programming & the Objective-C
> Programming Language'. But however as i checked the various libs that are
> open source and compilable
> under linux (libFoundation etc.), nobody uses it. They all handle their
> serialization of compound object
> by themselves...
This was before, sorry I did not make that clear. I do almost all my testing
on powerpc-darwin.
-- Pinski
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23108
