glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 12:50:00 GMT 2015


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It doesn't change the size, only increases alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes.
>
> Alignment is part of the ABI.
>

For x32, we can increase alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes without breaking
existing binaries.


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H.J.



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