Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:52:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GDB and extended type
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> > I saw that sizeof(DOUBLEST) is 12 instead of 10,
> > but I have no idea from were this comes from !!
> 
> Just a wild guess: Memory alignment. Variables are
> aligned to a 4 Byte boundary, so if you use an extended in
> a struct, it eats 12 Bytes. 

This guess is correct.  GCC pads to a multiple of 4 bytes (otherwise 
arrays of long double would suffer from unaligned accesses).

So the sizeof being 12 bytes is normal and is not necessarily connected 
to the GDB problem.