Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 10:42:34 +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 Thu, 8 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, salvador wrote:
> >
> > > >  And the same goes for the .align directives emitted
> > > > by GCC, for function entry points and labels?
> > >
> > > They are normally 8 bytes or less for djgpp.
> >
> > In what version?  2.7.2.1 emits ".align 2", which is 4 bytes with
> > Binutils 2.8.1.
> 
> I'm talking about the binutils aligment between .o files, nothing related to
> gcc.

Well, I was talking about .align directives emitted by GCC, see above ;-).

As far as alignment between .o files goes, the default COFF alignment
in Binutils is 4 bytes, not 8.