Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

From: Michael Meissner (meissner@cygnus.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 16:18:06 EST


On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:19:35PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
> > > > sched.c:77: warning: alignment of `aligned_data' is greater than maximum
> > > > object file alignment
> > >
> > > That's not i386 is it?
> >
> > 486.

It doesn't matter which machine is chosen (the machine type only sets the
default alignments). I believe the original problem is for System V.4 targets
(Linux ELF is a SVR4 target) in 2.7.2.3 did not set MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT, which
meant that the compiler assumed that the maximum alignment was 4 or 8 bytes.
Under 2.95 and beyond, the compiler knows you can specify higher alignments.

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