alignment test case

Mon Mar 17 20:41:00 GMT 2003

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Tom Tromey writes:
 > > Here's a simple test case that shows the alignment bug.
 > > 
 > > When I run it, I get:
 > > 
 > > fleche. ./F
 > > 4294967296
 > > true
 > > null
 > > 232300
 > > true
 > > maude
 > > 
 > > This is with a pristine 3.3 build I did yesterday.
 > 
 > Great, thanks. I'm on it.
Oops. I found the bug, and it's pretty trivial. If a superclass has
smaller alignment than a subclass -- which can happen because Object
is only 4-aligned -- my patch is wrong.
I'll commit a better patch tomorrow, one that can only *increase*
alignment, not *decrease* it.
Andrew.