alignment alternative

[Gyepi SAM]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:11:31AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> This determines the alignment boundary at configure-time, rather than
> compile-time.  It uses a method that autoconf upstream calls "sadistic",
> and provides no real advantage over the other method.  Nevertheless, it
> seems preferable to me.

You are using the return value of the test program as the alignment requirement?
That does seem strange, but would work since the value is less than 255.

Alternately, we could have the test program print out a #define into a header file that we
include.

I was quite surprised to discover that the autoconf does not have the facilities to read
the output of test programs.

-Gyepi