------- Comment #6 from jblomqvi at cc dot hut dot fi 2005-10-09 19:35 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > > It should be noted that the patch assumes that the padding for real(10) is > > 10 > > bytes data + 2 bytes padding. This works on i686-Linux, might not work on > > other > > targets (big endian?). > > Itanium has padding to 16 bytes for 10-byte reals. > > Using 12 bytes for 10-byte reals on ia686 would mean breaking binary > compatibility with Itanium :-(
Oh dear.. Is there any functionality one can use to get information about padding (size, location of pad bytes etc.), or do we need to resort to lots of #ifdef kludging? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24174
