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[GNAT] Higher alignment for composite stand-alone objects

Wednesday April 16, 2008

The compiler now chooses a higher alignment than that of their type for composite stand-alone objects if this will result in better performances. This can be disabled by means of pragma Optimize_Alignment (Space).

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