"Listing the alignment and access size (== expected alignment) in the warning
seems like a good idea."
solves PR 46947
struct Foo { struct Bar { void * a; void * b; }; Bar bar; }; struct ThirtyTwo { struct Large { void * a; void * b; void * c; void * d; }; Large bar; }; void braz(Foo *foo, ThirtyTwo *braz) { Foo::Bar bar; __atomic_load(&foo->bar, &bar, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); ThirtyTwo::Large foobar; __atomic_load(&braz->bar, &foobar, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); }
repro.cpp:21:3: warning: misaligned atomic operation may incur significant performance penalty; the expected (16 bytes) exceeds the actual alignment (8 bytes) [-Watomic-alignment]
__atomic_load(&foo->bar, &bar, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); ^
repro.cpp:24:3: warning: misaligned atomic operation may incur significant performance penalty; the expected (32 bytes) exceeds the actual alignment (8 bytes) [-Watomic-alignment]
__atomic_load(&braz->bar, &foobar, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); ^
repro.cpp:24:3: warning: large atomic operation may incur significant performance penalty; the access size (32 bytes) exceeds the max lock-free size (16 bytes) [-Watomic-alignment]
3 warnings generated.
Use ; rather than ( ... ) ?