http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46636
--- Comment #3 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org>
2010-11-24 14:26:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, on these targets "bytes" really are larger I suppose (for example
> each character in a C string constant consumes BITS_PER_UNIT).
A 32 bit wide character is not a byte, it is four bytes.
The documentation states:
You can also specify the alignment of structure fields. For example, to
create a double-word aligned @code{int} pair, you could write:
@smallexample
struct foo @{ int x[2] __attribute__ ((aligned (8))); @};
@end smallexample
If, on a 32-bit word-addressed target, this is aligned to 8 words
instead of two, that would be unexpected.
