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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:28:01 +0300 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc-2.95
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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Perhaps it's best to stay with defaults for i[34567]86 for release of 
> > DJGPP port. All similar changes should be carefully tested and 
> > most discussions in latest time were about using even 16 bytes 
> > alignment. But all such optimizations are common for all 
> > i[34567]86 targets and doing them especially for DJGPP would
> > duplicate the same efforts (and I'm not sure we'll do it better)
> 
> I couldn't agree more with Andris.
> 

Larger alignment is not very usefull before we'll have support of such
alignment in binutils. As there are currently no release of binutils that
supports that then I think this topic can still wait (one who wants to
experiment can still use -malign-* command line options)

Andris