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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:16:52 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: .align directives in libc.a
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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?

I don't know where do you think it can be configured, binutils? because I'm talking
about the current situation:

1) The start of the section is aligned by djgpp.djl
2) The aligment of the functions can be controled by -malign-functions
3) binutils controls the aligment between .o files (8 currently).

I think you are talking about (3) and not (2). Is that correct?

SET

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