alignment test case

Tue Mar 18 21:44:00 GMT 2003

Andrew Haley writes:
 > 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 was too quick to accept blame. My patch is correct AFAICS.
I think this is a c++ bug. See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-03/msg01196.html.
Andrew.