[boost] bjam assertion failure: does it really need stack alignment?

Subject: [boost] bjam assertion failure: does it really need stack alignment?
From: Steve M. Robbins (steve_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-04 23:28:42

Hi,

A question for the bjam maintainers about 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8993 

The file tools/build/v2/engine/function.c contains this check:

  static void check_alignment( STACK * s )
  {
      assert( (size_t)s->data % sizeof( LIST * ) == 0 );
  }

However, things other than LIST* are allocated on the stack.  For example 
expand_modifiers() allocates VAR_EDITS objects, whose size turns out not to be 
a multiple of sizeof(LIST*) on some architectures (m68k in the above ticket).

Does check_alignment() still make sense?

Thanks,
-Steve