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Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> It doesn't change the size, only increases alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes.
>>>
>>> Alignment is part of the ABI.
>>>
>>
>> For x32, we can increase alignment from 4 bytes to 8 bytes without breaking
>> existing binaries.
>
> The compiler may generate code to take advantage of the bigger
> alignment, which will fail if not fulfilled (this is not just about
> unaligned accesses).
>

Failure shouldn't happen on x32 in this case.

-- 
H.J.


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