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| -rw-r--r-- | Include/objimpl.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Include/objimpl.h b/Include/objimpl.h index 057bb50cbd..0436ba7899 100644 --- a/Include/objimpl.h +++ b/Include/objimpl.h @@ -255,7 +255,11 @@ typedef union _gc_head { union _gc_head *gc_prev; Py_ssize_t gc_refs; } gc; - double dummy; /* force worst-case alignment */ + long double dummy; /* force worst-case alignment */ + // malloc returns memory block aligned for any built-in types and + // long double is the largest standard C type. + // On amd64 linux, long double requires 16 byte alignment. + // See bpo-27987 for more discussion. } PyGC_Head; extern PyGC_Head *_PyGC_generation0; |