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Bug 36424 - Midnight Commander does not work with malign-double
Summary: Midnight Commander does not work with malign-double
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-12-24 06:01 UTC by Ronny Schoeniger
Modified: 2003-12-26 05:56 UTC (History)
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Description Ronny Schoeniger 2003-12-24 06:01:35 UTC
Compiling the Midnight Commander with malign-double results in a broken version of Midnight.
This are the effects i saw:
- all files have a size of 160GB
- open a file with <F3> leaves the screen blank, although the file contains some bytes

Compiling mc without malign-double works fine.

Maybe it is possible the filter this flag?

Greets from germany and happy x-mas

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 bartron 2003-12-25 19:57:14 UTC
  Please don't.  `-malign-double' is a flag that affects struct sizes 
and either has to be used everywhere or nowhere (see `info gcc').  Since 
there is no way to apply it to binary packages and other packages (glibc) 
filter it implicitely, the only way is to use it nowhere.

  Only packages that work with `-malign-double' don't use structs with 
members of said type or by some coincidence doubles are already aligned
at proper boundaries...in any case, it does not make a difference.
Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-26 05:56:54 UTC
since there are several packages that filter -malign-double i'll also add it to mc, but keep in mind that it is not officially supported by gentoo