Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:14:56 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:

> The main problem is the fact that we must align all the code to 16 bytes if the
> user wants to align your functions to 16 bytes.

I don't understand why this is true.  The .text section must be aligned 
to 16 bytes, which wastes 15 bytes at most, but once .text is 16-byte 
aligned, any user-defined function can be aligned to 16-byte no matter 
what the rest of the code does: just emit the ".align" directive.  Or am 
I missing something?

> Aligning to 16 bytes is good but will bloat libc a little bit.

I think ".balign 16,,7" doesn't bloat too much, and it's what Intel 
recommends.  But I don't know if GCC/EGCS can be told to use this.