# New Ticket Created by Ron Blaschke
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It seems like function pointers were required to be aligned and the
extra bits were used to store flags. That's what the assertion is for.
Since this isn't always true for all platforms there seems to be a hack
around this, which can be disabled with C<PARROT_HAS_ALIGNED_FUNCPTR>
(see F<src/mmd.c>:239).
I guess it would be good to tie the assertion and the workaround to the
same macro.
Changed Files:
src/mmd.c
Index: src/mmd.c
===================================================================
--- src/mmd.c (revision 19572)
+++ src/mmd.c (working copy)
@@ -1662,10 +1662,7 @@
* register default mmds for this type
*/
for (i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
- /* The following always fails for Intel C++ for unknown reasons,
- * but I'm assuming it's optimizer related.
- */
-#ifndef __INTEL_COMPILER
+#ifdef PARROT_HAS_ALIGNED_FUNCPTR
assert((PTR2UINTVAL(mmd_table[i].func_ptr) & 3) == 0);
#endif
mmd_register(interp,
