On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 08:58:29 -0800 > > > But, theoretically speaking, nothing stops GCC to align pointers with > > "gaps" as well? Let's say having everything (or some) aligned on > > quadword boundary even though arch is 32 bit? > > The alignment business only applies to aggregates (ie. structs and > unions). > > This has been confirmed via several weeks of expermentation with > different GCC versions on different platforms as well. I see. OK, then I'll prepare a patch to switch over to struct + pointer scheme. Thanks, Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
