From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T17:35:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested struct alignment summarized

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:07:14PM +0900, Robert Feldt wrote:
> So the situation look grim; even if we find a portable
> way to check how a certain compiler lays things out
> it may not lay things out in the same way for different
> structs. There could be special situation where it changes the layout.
> 
> So is there anything we can do?

Expand the current method (list of structure types in dl.h (ALIGN_*)),
so that the alignments for a growing number of structs are determined
at compile time?

Of course, that'd require some code to check for structural equivalence
of emm structures.

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