[parisc-linux-cvs] lock alignment problem in glibc

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Alan Modra wrote:

> Hmm, does that work?  All other uses of __attribute__ I've seen apply to
> the variable in question, not the type.  Even if it does work, the
> following might be better, simply because it's the usual way to do things.

eg. I can imagine amusing compiler bugs where putting the attribute on
`int' made all other ints declared in this file, 16 byte aligned.