Re: USE_LSB_TAG and Solaris 10

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:04:27 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> 
> It turns out that Sun cc now supports __attribute__ ((__aligned__ (E)))
> a la GCC.  Also, Solaris 10 malloc (which GCC uses) aligns to 8.
> So I installed this performance improvement into the trunk.
> 
> === modified file 'ChangeLog'
> --- ChangeLog 2011-01-17 19:20:37 +0000
> +++ ChangeLog 2011-01-18 04:54:43 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> +2011-01-18  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     * configure.in (HAVE_ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED): Arrange for this to be
> +     defined if the compiler supports GCC-style __attribute__
> +     ((__aligned__ ...)).  IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris Studio support
> +     this syntax.

And what do you think this change will do to platforms that don't run
the configure script, but do use GCC?