[Python-Dev] mingw32 and gc-header weirdness

[Antoine Pitrou]

Christian Tismer <tismer <at> stackless.com> writes:
> 
> Despite the fact that Python probably has to be changed:
> If it is true then all the 32-bit Linux Pythons have a 12
> byte GC head, IOW they are *all* badly aligned.

Why are they badly aligned?
The fact that long double is 12 bytes long doesn't mean it will force a 12-byte
alignment - just whatever alignment is enough for a long double on the target
machine. This could be 4, 8 or 16 bytes.