MinGW --mno-align-double

[Hans Leidekker]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 19:37, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> > Alexandre, can we add this flag to our makefiles? If so,
> > I can produce a patch...
> 
> No, I think it's better to avoid this. Our test environment is useful
> for testing not only Wine but also Mingw, we have already found a
> number of bugs that way. We would lose that possibility if we started
> adding workarounds that hide the Mingw bugs.

Interestingly the diff for the MinGW compiler (against stock GCC) has
this comment:

  "We also align doubles to 64-bits for MSVC default compatibility."

I will investigate this a bit more.


 -Hans