alignment test case

Wed Mar 19 14:31:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年3月19日, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I can't see any way to fix this without fixing the C++ problem. Well,
> > we could rewrite gcj to use the new ABI, but that's a long way down
> > the road.
>> Actually there might be another way: use __attribute__((aligned)) on
> java.lang.Object. Then a subclass can never be more aligned than its
> superclass. Wastes memory, though.

I thought that with hash synchronization, boehm-gc always allocates on an
8-byte boundary anyway? Would aligning Object really waste memory?
Jeff