On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:12:48PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote: > >... On SPARC, doubles should be aligned on 8-bit boundaries. > >The speculation is that the _num_val part of the UnionVal in the PMC > >ends up unaligned. However, I couldn't follow where that happened, so I > >can't suggest a patch. > > It happends directly in the PMC memory arena. Whenever the PMC size % 8 > isn't zero.
That's gotta be a compiler bug. When a structure contains a member that needs N-byte alignment, and sizeof(structure) % N is not zero, the compiler is busted. (Have they never heard of _arrays_?) -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
