Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:42:03PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote: | > The simplest solution would probably be to ignore __aligned__ attributes | > completely when we have an array. Or to do the change you suggested for | > the vector tests and have the attribute attached to the array and not | > the element type. | | Another possibility is to treat the alignment attribute as applying to the | array as a whole (that is, the array is aligned to a multiple of 16 bytes, | but the elements aren't), perhaps with a warning that this use is | deprecated. I propose this because the tests suggest that this use is | common enough that it appears in tests.
The warning would not be very helpful. For example, in C++ we need allocation of aligned storage. The storage is an arrays of char and we want that array (the whole array) to be properly aligned for a specified object type T. -- Gaby
