http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60291
Markus Trippelsdorf <trippels at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |trippels at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #2 from Markus Trippelsdorf <trippels at gcc dot gnu.org> --- It looks like clang ignores all _attribute__((aligned (8))): % clang -c -O2 ghc14232_3.hc.i 2>&1 | grep Wignored-attributes | wc -l 16710 % Using -flto=4 with gcc-4.9 almost halves the compile time on my machine (ancient AMD Phenom 4 core): From: 5:27.73 total To : 2:23.85 total (clang takes 1:22.60 total)