jyknight added a comment.

Hm, to start with, the current state of this confuses me.

In GCC, the preprocessor macro `__BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__` was supposed to expose 
the alignment used by `__attribute__((aligned))` (no arg specified), as well 
the alignment used for alloca. However, this is no longer the case on x86: 
`BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT` is 512bits with avx-512 enabled, 256bits with avx enabled, 
and otherwise 128bits. Alloca follows this too. But, `__attribute__((aligned))` 
was fixed at 128bit alignment, regardless of AVX being enabled, in order to not 
break ABI compatibility with structs using that. On other architectures, the 3 
values seem to be always the same.

In clang, we similarly have (before this patch) both 
DefaultAlignForAttributeAligned (used for ``attribute((aligned))`), and 
SuitableAlign (used for the predefined `__BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__` and alignment 
for alloca). But these values are different on very many architectures...which 
I think is probably wrong. Furthermore, SuitableAlign isn't being adjusted to 
be suitable for vectors, like it is in gcc, which _also_ seems wrong. Looks 
like there's actually an earlier patch to fix that which was never merged: 
https://reviews.llvm.org/D39313

So, anyways -- back to this patch: On AIX PPC, you want alloca to align to 
128bits, `__attribute__((aligned))` to align to 128bits (aka 8 bytes), but 
`__BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__` to only be 4?

That seems pretty weird, and probably wrong?


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