Subject: Re: linker mis-alignments for cygwin 1.1.3
From: "Tim Prince" <[email-masked]>
To: "DJ Delorie" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:58:47 -0700

That's the key.  Setting that number to 4 causes linker to insert
padding to put everything on 64-bit alignments (I was hoping for 128).
Presumably 3 would do the same.  Absolutely required for good
performance with 64-bit data.

Tim Prince
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From: "DJ Delorie" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: linker mis-alignments for cygwin 1.1.3

>
> > apparently all from libcygwin.a, which take a total of 12 bytes,
> > beginning at a properly aligned address, leaving all subsequent
modules
> > mis-aligned.
>
> Actually, such alignments are enforced by the assembler and linker.
> The linker is supposed to pad sections to keep each one aligned on a
> suitable boundary (src/bfd/coff-i386.c,
> COFF_DEFAULT_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_POWER, currently set to 2 (i.e. 4
> bytes)).
>
> The assembler is supposed to only produce sections that are padded to
> the right size alignment.
>

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