Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks, but I think the resulting code is confusing.  E.g.:
> 
>    static struct thread_state GCALIGNED main_thread;
> 
> This looks like we ask main_thread to be 8-byte aligned, which would
> bring back the problems we had before.

I attempted to clarify this by installing the first attached patch into the 
emacs-26 branch. This patch adds a comment to the definition of GCALIGNED. If 
the name "GCALIGNED" itself is confusing, we can systematically change the name 
to something else.  (The name doesn't confuse me, but perhaps I'm too close to 
the code.)

> I don't know anything about that code, and I don't think anyone does.
> Who will tell us that the comment is still accurate?

Since MSVC is no longer relevant, it doesn't matter whether the comment about 
MSVC is accurate, and we can remove it.

> Anything that is conditioned by _MSC_VER can go.

I did that by installing the second attached patch into 'master'. This affects 
only the mainline code; I didn't fiddle with the MS-Windows-only files since I 
can't easily test them.