Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:50:46 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Re: .align directives in libc.a
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:

> Yes, the problem is that:
> 
> -------------- first file
> functions here
> last_address
> -------------- next .o file linked by ld
> last_address aligned to 8 bytes boundary
> functions here
> --------------
> 
> So if you try to align to 16, 32, etc bytes boundaries you won't succeed. Also:
> putting a .align directive at the end of first file doesn't work.
> This value is hardcoded in binutils.

So we need to change the value in Binutils, to get proper alignment.