Unable to get Clang to obey target alignment requirements

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I’m currently struggling with getting Clang and LLVM to use 4-byte alignment for my target backend (ARCompact). (My target uses 4-byte alignment for all targets whose size is >= 4.) With regards to Clang, I thought I had set the correct variables and the DescriptionString in Targets.cpp, but compiling a simple test case to LLVM IR shows that doubles are still aligned to 8-bytes!

A quick overview of the Targets.cpp code, the test file, and the outcome can be seen at http://pastebin.com/45y2N4dV

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Stephen

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You're probably getting bitten by ASTContext::getPreferredTypeAlign .
I'm sure we've discussed changing it to do some target-configurable
thing, but nobody ever sent a patch. (Patches welcome.)

-Eli