Commit 7825d1cf by Richard Sandiford Committed by Richard Sandiford

extend.texi: Remove old claim that typedefs cannot have an alignment attribute.

	* doc/extend.texi: Remove old claim that typedefs cannot have
	an alignment attribute.

From-SVN: r52180
parent ab50d72b
2002-04-11 Richard Sandiford <rsand
* doc/extend.texi: Remove old claim that typedefs cannot have
an alignment attribute.
2002-04-11 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
PR optimization/6177
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......@@ -2866,11 +2866,6 @@ struct foo @{ int x[2] __attribute__ ((aligned (8))); @};
This is an alternative to creating a union with a @code{double} member
that forces the union to be double-word aligned.
It is not possible to specify the alignment of functions; the alignment
of functions is determined by the machine's requirements and cannot be
changed. You cannot specify alignment for a typedef name because such a
name is just an alias, not a distinct type.
As in the preceding examples, you can explicitly specify the alignment
(in bytes) that you wish the compiler to use for a given variable or
structure field. Alternatively, you can leave out the alignment factor
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