glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Sat Jan 24 17:54:00 GMT 2015


On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Torvald Riegel wrote:

> m68k is an outlier. It sets the size to 16B but alignment like that:
> long int __align __attribute__ ((__aligned__ (4)))
> 
> I don't know anything about m68k, and there's no comment why that is
> different.  Does anyone know?

2-byte default alignment of 4-byte types (but 4-byte alignment still 
required if used as futexes), I think.

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Joseph S. Myers
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