Date:	Tue, 20 May 1997 18:04:13 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>,
	Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
Subject:	Re: -m486 alignment problem
In-Reply-To:	<199705191648.AA139390512@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970520180101.22684G-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> Anyway, what was suggested to me was that the compiler was outputting
> .align 2 and was meaning that 2 to be taken as 2 to the power of (in this
> case 4), but the assembler was treating it as just the number of bytes.

As far as I remember, gcc and gas indeed disagree on this.  DJ reported 
this when v2 was in beta, but I don't think it was fixed.

> But I was then told that this was a configuration problem and a 
> reconfigure and rebuild would fix it.

That is correct, AFAIK.  Robert, is it possible to try to fix this while 
you port Binutils 2.8?

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