RE: amusing SLUB compaction bug when CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE

From: David Laight
Date: Fri Sep 30 2022 - 07:18:14 EST


> > > Regarding "conflicting" alignment requests: yes, I agree with you,
> > > it would have to be a toolchain bug if when asked to align 2 and to
> > > align 4, it chose not to align 4.

See https://godbolt.org/z/3nGsTaf5e
the align() directive takes precedence.

Here you only want to ensure the alignment is at least 4.

David

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