[Bug-gnu-arch] [bug #15915] MACHINE_ALIGNMENT miscalculated on PPC32

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                 Summary: MACHINE_ALIGNMENT miscalculated on PPC32
                 Project: GNU arch -- a revision control system
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 02/27/06 at 14:10
                Category: tla
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 1.3.4
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          Merge Request?: None
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             Assigned to: None

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Details:

The gen-alignment program that calculates the MACHINE_ALIGNMENT macro
generates the wrong alignment on PPC32.  With the newest glibc, the ABI
changed for PPC such that sizeof(long double) returns 16 instead of 8. 
However, malloc only guarantees alignment for 2 * sizeof(void *), which is
still 8 bytes.

When attempting to build tla on PPC32, the unit-ar test fails because of this
as it is checking for 16 byte alignment when it should be checking for 8 byte
alignment.  See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182742

for more details.






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