Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:45:10 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:

> Yes, most processors uses 32, but that's also a waste if you routine
> is around 32 bytes  and you pad it with 60 bytes ;-) (30+30).

Gas can be told to not align more than a certain amount.  See below.

> I think Gas should have conditional aligment instructions, like:
> "align it if all the references are at 64 or more bytes of distance"

Gas from Binutils 2.8 and later can do this.  For example:

    .p2align 4,0x90,7

This will align on 16-byte boundaries, but only if the amount of
padding is less than 8 bytes.  Accidentally, this is what Intel
recommends for alignment of targets of jumps and function entry
points.