RFR: 8305341: Alignment should be enforced by alignas instead of compiler specific attributes [v3]

Wed Apr 12 01:41:34 UTC 2023

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 13:24:37 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
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> Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Semicolon

I don't think the other bug/PR (JDK-8250269, PR#11431) to change HotSpot's
ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED should be combined with the changes outside of HotSpot.
They are doing rather different things, despite the token "alignas" occuring
in both.  I've been meaning to review PR#11431, but have been swamped.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13258#issuecomment-1504401317