[llvm-commits] [llvm-gcc-4.2] r89415 - in /llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk/gcc: config/darwin.h llvm-backend.cpp

[Bill Wendling]

On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Dale Johannesen wrote:

> 
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:31 PMPST, Bill Wendling wrote:
> 
>> Author: void
>> Date: Thu Nov 19 18:31:31 2009
>> New Revision: 89415
>> 
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=89415&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Adjust the alignment of strings so that they aren't over aligned. We only need
>> them aligned to 8-bytes instead of 16-bytes for 64-bit. And 4 instead of 8 in
>> 32-bit.
> 
> Maybe so, but I bet there is a good reason it was the way it was.  Did you do any performance measurements?
> 
No. Evan noticed that GCC was doing it with lesser alignments and that that caused bigger files and stuff...

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