On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > The discussion last time ended with a mail from you that TYPE_ALIGN_OK > > is "somehow" relevant in the Ada FE, but I didn't see any feedback > > from Eric nor results from the "extended" testing we wanted to perform. > > TYPE_ALIGN_OK is definitely relevant in the Ada FE, the question being > whether > it is still relevant in the middle-end, in which case this would most likely > be for strict-alignment platforms. So we need a serious evaluation of the > patch on a strict-alignment platform (no, the compiler bootstrap + testsuite > alone doesn't qualify here).
I expect it still has an effect due to the same reason as the DECL_OFFSET_ALIGN thing - memory reference expansion doesn't gather information from the full reference but tries to re-cover it from the pieces returned from get_inner_reference. So I guess we need to fix that first. > > So is there any news on that front? > > I should have meaningful results tomorrow morning baring unexpected issues. Thanks, Richard.