Re: Alignment of Lisp_Subr

[Richard Stallman]

    - Structures of type Lisp_Subr are statically allocated and are not
      guaranteed to be aligned on a multiple of 8.  I currently solve this
      by adding __attributes__ ((__aligned__ (8))), but this only works for GCC
      AFAIK.  The only alternative I can think of is to add a padding field
      to Lisp_Subr and when its address is not a multiple of 8, memmove it
      by a few bytes (I think `defsubr' is the only place where we refer
      to these statically allocated Sfoo variables).
      Any comment on which approach is preferable ?

Subr objects are allocated statically, but I don't think anything
requires that.  There is no harm in copying the data to some new,
properly-aligned block of memory and using that block instead.