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 <[email protected]>:
 |On 09.01.2026 14:25, Herman ten Brugge wrote:
 |> On 1/9/26 12:57, grischka wrote:
 |>> On 09.01.2026 08:04, Herman ten Brugge via Tinycc-devel wrote:
 |>>> While debugging some i386 code I found some memory alignment difference\
 |>>> s.
 |>>>
 |>>> 1) The double and long long type differ inside and outside struct.
 |>>>
 |>>> outside struct (size = 8, align = 8):
 |>>> double a;
 |>>> long long b;
 |>>>
 |>>> inside struct (size = 8 align = 4)
 |>>> struct {
 |>>>     double a;
 |>>>     long long b;
 |>>>};
 |>>>
 |>>> This only happens on x86 (and perhaps on !TCC_ARM_EABI which I \
 |>>> cannot test).
 |>>
 |>> I cannot reproduce this.  Alignment is 4 in both cases
 |> I tried again with gcc4/gcc15/gcc16/clang21/clang22 with program below.
 |
 |Sorry, but 'gcc' or 'clang' were not mentioned at all above. Just
 |"memory alignment differences" and "inside and outside struct".
 |
 |Since we're on the tinycc list the natural thing to assume was
 |that the somewhat strange difference does exist in TCC, rather
 |than that the difference exists in gcc or that it exists between
 |tcc and gcc or clang.
 |
 |> I still think we should fix the i386 alignment.
 |
 |So...
 |- by "the i386 alignment" you mean alignment of 'double' and 'long \
 |long' on i386,
 |- and by "we should fix" you mean us to assume a bug in TCC,
 |- and by "I still think" you mean to substitute the still missing arguments
 |   for that assumption.
 |
 |Is that correct? ;)

I am thankful To Herman for all the work he does, just to mention
this.  Also to you, of course.  But i got the gut feeling you are
now pissing around.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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