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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 09:49:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: New NASM and ALIGN
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Richard Nichols <tiberius AT mailhost DOT net> wrote:

> why doesn't NASM 0.97 let you say:
>   [SECTION .text ALIGN=4]
> it gives me a error like 'standard coff does not support section
> alignment'.
> ???

I'm not a COFF guru, but what NASM says is true. You can't ask for an special 
aligment of a section in the COFF .o file. You can do it in other formats but 
DJGPP doesn't support it (for example ELF supports that).
To align a COFF section you MUST edit the linking script (djgpp.dlk or 
something like that located in the lib directory). You must indicate what 
section/s (you can use wildcards) will be included in the output file, in what 
region(?) (.text, .data, .bss) and with what aligment. Read the ld info file to 
see the available commands.
I was able to align some special section to a 64 bits (8 bytes) boundary doing 
that.

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