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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:11:03 -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 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.

Yes but then we will bloat libc. As I said before not even M$ is aligning the
run-time library in this way (16 bytes).

SET

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