From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: robert song <robertsong.linux@gmail.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: MIPS section alignment of object file
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:02:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222190208.GA8697@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080222122926.GB17312@linux-mips.org>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:29:26PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> The minimum alignment technically required is the largest alignment of
> any type contained in a section. Due to the possibility of relocatable
> links the assembler can't know what the largest aligment is, so it has
> to make a reasonable guess which would be 8 bytes, the size of a double
> floating point.
That's not really true. The compiler is responsible for emitting
appropriate .align directives to communicate this. I don't remember
where the hack in gas came from, but I bet it's required for IRIX.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-21 16:12 MIPS section alignment of object file robert song
2008-02-22 12:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-02-22 19:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
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