On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:33:48PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:40:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > is it possible for gcc to turn off string padding to 16 bytes?
> >
> > which platform?
> i386

I have no easy answer, but you could trace the usage of the
CONSTANT_ALIGNMENT(EXP, ALIGN) macro in
src/gnu/dist/gcc/config/i386/i386.h and see if there's a way to
override.  worst case you could change the values there.  it's possible
this alignment is expected and changing it may break things.

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