Andrew,
On 15 July 2008 Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I narrowed it down to the following example:
> >
> > <<<
> > struct {
> > int xxx[NINT];
> > } aaa __attribute__((section(".foo")));
> > <<<<
>
> Please try making it a one-element array of that struct. Does that
> fix your problem?
No, it doesn't.
struct {
int xxx[NINT];
} aaa[1] __attribute__((section(".foo")));
$ gcc -o - -S gg.c -DNINT=9 | grep align
.align 32
> > The question is, why does GCC perform such 32-byte alignment and is
> > it possible to turn off such behavior globally?
>
> What target is this? It might be an ABI requirement, or just an
> optimization. Strictly speaking, gcc is allowed to do this.
$ gcc -dumpmachine
i386-redhat-linux
Best regards,
Alexey.
