http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56434
--- Comment #8 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> 2013-03-22 09:56:37 UTC --- On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, chip at pobox dot com wrote: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56434 > > --- Comment #7 from Chip Salzenberg <chip at pobox dot com> 2013-03-21 > 00:31:40 UTC --- > So ... is there still a question of the Right Thing here? It seems that > fixing > MALLOC_ABI_ALIGNMENT for the world, and ensuring that BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT never > affects the ABI, are the actions to take. If this were done soon we could > even > see it fixed for 4.8.0. Help? The RTL code using BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT for the malloc result is simply wrong and was wrong since forever. What the replacement should be is the question here, but as we use MALLOC_ABI_ALIGNMENT on the tree level for _exactly the same purpose_ I think the answer is obvious. I will propose a patch. Richard.
