Binutils alignment and libjava

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:29:33PM +1000, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:
>Sorry for not commenting on this earlier, but I have been travelling
>with work - building and commissioning plant rather than computing.  
>
>It is now possible to build libjava with 4 byte alignment on cygwin,
>as hash synchronization has been disabled for cygwin 
>(in libjava/configure.host).
>
>I have tested this in both 3.1.1 (cygwin) and 3.2, but not for a 
>couple of weeks.  

If anyone has any insight into what this means in terms of cygwin java
performance, I'd like to hear it.  It sounds like this is something
that isn't really desirable.

However, if this is the way things are moving, are you willing to
patch the cygwin gcc branch for this, David?

cgf