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
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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?