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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:54:39 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: ab3d713e93dc - main - sys/_types.h: use builtins to for __max_align_t
Message-ID:  <aEnC3yhoYQCSLszT@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <37D99680-366D-4D11-BC19-B6D676FA1E22@freebsd.org>
References:  <202506111700.55BH0Ka6042574@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <37D99680-366D-4D11-BC19-B6D676FA1E22@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2025, at 18:00, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The branch main has been updated by brooks:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=ab3d713e93dc1d322398657125071101c08e2ce5
> > 
> > commit ab3d713e93dc1d322398657125071101c08e2ce5
> > Author:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2025-06-11 16:39:01 +0000
> > Commit:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2025-06-11 16:39:01 +0000
> > 
> >    sys/_types.h: use builtins to for __max_align_t
> > 
> >    Use __attribute__((__aligned__(x))) and __alignof__(x) in places of local
> >    macros that ultimately wrap these.  We don't support compilers that don't
> >    define these so there's little loss of generality.
> > 
> >    This mirrors Clang's stddef.h.
> > 
> >    Reviewed by:    imp
> >    Exp-run by:     antoine (PR 286274)
> >    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1595
> > ---
> > sys/sys/_types.h | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sys/sys/_types.h b/sys/sys/_types.h
> > index c84b84edd2b8..f6d1f26551e0 100644
> > --- a/sys/sys/_types.h
> > +++ b/sys/sys/_types.h
> > @@ -181,9 +181,11 @@ typedef __uint_least32_t __char32_t;
> > #endif
> > 
> > typedef struct {
> > - long long __max_align1 __aligned(_Alignof(long long));
> > + long long __max_align1
> > +    __attribute__((__aligned__(__alignof__(long long))));
> > #ifndef _STANDALONE
> > - long double __max_align2 __aligned(_Alignof(long double));
> > + long double __max_align2
> > +    __attribute__((__aligned__(__alignof__(long long))));
> > #endif
> > } __max_align_t;
> > 
> 
> _Alignof is the standard C spelling of it. We should be adopting the
> standard names for things more, polyfilling with GNU macros when not
> available, not increasing our use of old GNU C equivalents that predate
> their additions to the standard. This should really be
> _Alignas(_Alignof(...)).

Hmm, probably hoisting _Alignas and _Alignof into a sys/_stdalign.h would
work well here.

-- Brooks



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