Ping! malloc bug, and PIC and flat shared library support for m68k

[Richard Sandiford]

Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online.de> writes:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 04:15, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>>> Ping!
>> 
>> hmm, i thought i already committed this ... guess not
>> 
>> you'll have to ping Bernd for the malloc question
>
> He does?  Oh.
>
> Well, the patch I saw which uses
>
> +#define HEAP_GRANULARITY_TYPE	double __attribute_aligned__ (sizeof
> (size_t))
>
> seems reasonable once you find the place in the GCC docs that says that
> attribute aligned never decreases alignment.
>
> Why not just use plain attribute ((aligned)) which is documented to
> provide the maximum alignment for any datatype?  Seems like that's
> exactly what we want for malloc.

That won't have the desired effect.  The maximum alignment of any
datatype really is 2 bytes on m68k, so the construct above is making
the alignment even bigger than you'd get with plain atribute((aligned)).

Richard