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Re: setup-1.7 defaults to "Just me"
On Apr 16 02:45, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Alignment?
>
> Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural
> alignment? The nonworking code was just "UCHAR foo[1024]" whereas the
> working was "char buf[size]", which I cribbed from
> grp.cc:internal_getgroups().
Maybe such a dynamic stack allocation like `char buf[size]' uses an
alloca-like function under the hood which also always aligns sufficently
for all datatypes.
Corinna
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