On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 7:07 PM +0200 4/29/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 6:43 PM +0200 4/29/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>> >>>I can't see, why this patch should break t/pmc/float.t and: > >> Because GCC doesn't align function pointers unless you ask it to, > >Argh. System depend weird stuff. gcc does function aligning on x86 >though.
Nope, it doesn't. I think it does on non-x86 systems, but for x86 it only aligns with -O2 or higher. Go figure.
Should we provide a fallback option for those platforms/compilers that we can't persuade to do function aligning, or is this something that any ANSI C compliant compiler is supposed to be able to do?
It's not guaranteed anywhere, so having a fallback is definitely in order. It's distinctly possible we'll find compilers that flat-out won't allow us to do this, in which case we'll need a Plan B as fallback.
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