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Comment at: clang/lib/CodeGen/Address.h:67
       return;
-    // Currently the max supported alignment is much less than 1 << 63 and is
+    // Currently the max supported alignment is much less than 1 << 32 and is
     // guaranteed to be a power of 2, so we can store the log of the alignment
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efriedma wrote:
> ahatanak wrote:
> > efriedma wrote:
> > > ahatanak wrote:
> > > > efriedma wrote:
> > > > > This comment isn't right.  The max alignment is, as far as I can 
> > > > > tell, 1<<32 exactly.  (But there's something weird going on with very 
> > > > > large values... somehow `int a[1LL<<32] 
> > > > > __attribute((aligned(1ULL<<32))) = {};` ignores the alignment.)
> > > > The following function generated by tablegen (and a few others directly 
> > > > or indirectly calling the function) returns a 32-bit int, but it should 
> > > > be returning a 64-bit int.
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang/utils/TableGen/ClangAttrEmitter.cpp#L532
> > > Filed https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/60752 so we don't lose 
> > > track of this.
> > I just realized we can't reduce the number of bits used for alignment here 
> > as we need 6 bits for alignment of `1 << 32`.
> > 
> > Should we allocate additional memory when `AlignLog` is either 31 or 32? If 
> > the 5-bit alignment is equal to `0b11111`, it would mean that there is an 
> > out-of-line storage large enough to hold the alignment and any other extra 
> > information that is needed. I think 
> > https://reviews.llvm.org/D117262#3267899 proposes a similar idea.
> How much does `sizeof(Address)` actually matter, anyway?  If it's going to 
> get that nasty to implement the packing, I'm not sure it's worth the effort 
> to optimize.
I'm not sure, but apparently https://reviews.llvm.org/D117262 was needed to 
reduce the memory usage.

I don't see a significant increase in stack usage (a little over 1%) in the 
files in `clang/lib/CodeGen` when I build clang with `-fstack-usage`.


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