From b8e72fdde1186f41963697d57383c08402513ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Vlasenko Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:07:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add info about gcc's sadistic alignment - and how to disable it --- docs/keep_data_small.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/keep_data_small.txt b/docs/keep_data_small.txt index 15e41aefd..3c3d27396 100644 --- a/docs/keep_data_small.txt +++ b/docs/keep_data_small.txt @@ -178,5 +178,29 @@ struct { char vc31[31] = { 1 }; // unaligned char vc32[32] = { 1 }; // aligned to 32 bytes --fpack-struct=1 reduces alignment of s28 to 1 (but probably will break layout -of many libc structs) but s32 and vc32 are still aligned to 32 bytes. +-fpack-struct=1 reduces alignment of s28 to 1 (but probably +will break layout of many libc structs) but s32 and vc32 +are still aligned to 32 bytes. + +I will try to cook up a patch to add a gcc option for disabling it. +Meanwhile, this is where it can be disabled in gcc source: + +gcc/config/i386/i386.c +int +ix86_data_alignment (tree type, int align) +{ +#if 0 + if (AGGREGATE_TYPE_P (type) + && TYPE_SIZE (type) + && TREE_CODE (TYPE_SIZE (type)) == INTEGER_CST + && (TREE_INT_CST_LOW (TYPE_SIZE (type)) >= 256 + || TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (TYPE_SIZE (type))) && align < 256) + return 256; +#endif + +Result (non-static busybox built against glibc): + +# size /usr/srcdevel/bbox/fix/busybox.t0/busybox busybox + text data bss dec hex filename + 634416 2736 23856 661008 a1610 busybox + 632580 2672 22944 658196 a0b14 busybox_noalign -- 2.25.1