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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Urgent question: malloc and ada...READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Date: 1998/04/26
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In article <x7vson01poa.fsf@pogner.demon.co.uk>, Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> writes:
> 
>> How does the Ada compiler implemetor know what C compiler is used in
>> that "particular environment in which the compiler operates"?
>> Telepathy?
> 
> Well, one solution would be for the Ada vendor to specify it! In fact,
> given the need to match the C representations, I think the Ada vendor
> would have to.

And, depending on the compiler one might have to specify particular
compilation modes for which the alignment characteristics will be
matched.  I don't remember the details, but DEC C for Alpha allows
one to generate code which naturally aligns elements on quadword
boundaries or longword boundaries, depending on application needs.