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Date:      Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:38:21 +0100
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: GNU extensions on FreeBSD 5.x headers
Message-ID:  <20030604083821.GM18938@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20030603210338.A70533@espresso.bsdmike.org>
References:  <20030603215322.31853.qmail@web13403.mail.yahoo.com> <20030603210338.A70533@espresso.bsdmike.org>

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:03:38PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> 
> I think those of us who've played with alternative compilers are aware
> of this requirement.  I'm not sure there's anything we can do about
> it.  If anyone has any tricks to force 128-bit alignment without a
> 128-bit type in standard C, I'd love to hear it.

Not in standard C (since it doesn't allow you to express alignment and
padding requirements), but in C-as-she-is-spoke why not insert the
necessary padding explicitly?

Tony.
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