Illegal C in kaffe 1.0.b3

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  6, 1999, Godmar Back <gback at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

>  Pere,

>  The second problem with stdlib.h should be fixed in the current snapshot.
> If you have to compile with the native compiler, the proper fix for the first
> one would be something like

> #ifdef __GNUC__
> 	double align[0];
> #elif SOME_CONSTANT_DEFINED_BY_IRIX_NATIVE_C_COMPILER
> #pragma_or_other_magic_to	TELL_IRIX_TO_ALIGN_TO_A_DOUBLE_WORD_BOUNDARY
> #else
> #error If you don't use gcc, tell me how to double word align.
> #endif

> Do you know what SOME_CONSTANT_DEFINED_BY_IRIX_NATIVE_C_COMPILER and
> TELL_IRIX_TO_ALIGN_TO_A_DOUBLE_WORD_BOUNDARY could be?

> Also, I don't know off-hand if the alignment is needed in all cases---
> it may not be needed for the interpreter; so in this case it would actually
> be okay for you to omit the double altogether instead of wasting 8 bytes.

How about declaring length within a union of an int and a double?
This should probably take care of the alignment?

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