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Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 and binary compatibility

To: Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 and binary compatibility
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:57:33 +0100
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Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> writes:

>> So what do you think about removing the alignments, for structure
>> members and stack parameters ? Does it break some compatibility ?

Alignment is part of the ABI.  If you change it you are creating an
incompatible ABI.

Andreas.

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