Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 glibc2.1 Backward compat - revisited

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:20:01PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> It may look like i still start one byte after c, but in fact for
> performance reasons the compiler may decide to insert some filler so
> that i can start on an even-byte or perhaps a 4-byte boundary.  We
> were moving some code from a 16-bit to a 32-bit box, and discovered
> that the compiler now wanted to line up int's on addresses divisible
> by 4 instead of by 2.

As well it should.

IA32 requires this. ints don't make sense to the processor otherwise.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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