RFR: 8305341: Alignment outside of HotSpot should be enforced by alignas instead of compiler specific attributes

[Chris Plummer]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:07:39 GMT, Julian Waters <jwaters at openjdk.org> wrote:

> C11 has been stable for a long time on all platforms, so native code can use the standard alignas operator for alignment requirements

> I don't think I can touch the freetype code since I think it's an external library that was imported. HotSpot requires a special review for changes like this, so it's not done here, but instead at #11431 (Which has dried up for a long time now, would be great if someone finally looked at that PR...)

Ok. What about the globalDefinitions_visCPP.hpp reference?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13258#issuecomment-1494864710