> Here's the output of Configure.pl --verbose on a SPARC where the required
> alignment is 4. The test correctly deduces that alignments of 64, 32, 16,
> 8, and 4 all work, but apparently throws that information away when the 2
> and 1 byte alignment tests fail.
And here's a simple patch to fix it. It reverses the order of the tests
and saves the first successful one.
--- parrot-current/config/auto/alignptrs.pm Thu Jan 3 16:17:39 2008
+++ parrot-andy/config/auto/alignptrs.pm Thu Jan 3 16:24:49 2008
@@ -55,9 +55,10 @@
# Now really test by compiling some code
$conf->cc_gen('config/auto/alignptrs/test_c.in');
$conf->cc_build();
- for my $try_align ( 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 ) {
+ for my $try_align ( 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ) {
my $results = $conf->cc_run_capture($try_align);
$align = _evaluate_results($results, $try_align);
+ last if defined($align);
}
$conf->cc_clean();
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
