I'm tying to hunt down the cause of a bug I'm experiencing and it all
boils down to a possible misunderstanding
on my part on the semantics of the 'aligned' attribute.
Is the 'aligned' attribute supposed to work for objects allocated on
the stack (I'm on x86_64, gcc 4.1.1)?
The only caveat in the GCC documentation is about the linker not
being able to honor an alignment
request, but I'd guess that applies to globals. For dynamic and auto
allocation seems to me that
GCC has to generate the appropriate alignment code, but I haven't
found any distinction between
different types of allocations in the documentations.
Thanks,
Maurizio
