Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:54:12 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Chris Matrakidis wrote:

> Even though the object file has the arrays correctly aligned, ld has AFAIK no
> way to identify what the required alignment is.

This means that the code produced by GCC 2.7.2.x will sometimes run 
faster and sometimes slower that the code of 2.8.1, since the actual 
alignment is determined by pseudo-random factors, right?

Is the problem limited to .bss data?

> I can't think of any easy way to overcome this.

Can't we change the alignment parameter in Binutils configuration?