From: Bryan Ford <baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu>
To: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: .align behavior in gas
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199504252316.RAA09079@schirf.cs.utah.edu> (raw)
In recent gas snapshots, it seems that for some i386 targets
(e.g. i386-mach, i386-gnu), gas interprets the .align directive
as a number of bytes; whereas for other targets (e.g. i386-linux)
it is interpreted as log2(nbytes). Has this always been the case?
Are there any other directives that perform the same function but
have a consistent behavior? (I looked at gas/read.c, but couldn't
find anything.) If not, it would be very useful to have a new directive
called, say, '.balign' that always takes a number of bytes, and/or a new
directive called something like '.p2align' that always takes a power of
two. (I don't care what it is, as long as it's consistent!) This
should be trivial to do; just a matter of adding a new line or two
to read.c, right?
Thanks!
Bryan
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-04-25 16:10 Bryan Ford [this message]
1995-04-26 7:01 ` Ken Raeburn
1995-04-26 10:27 ` Bryan Ford
1995-04-26 13:03 ` Ken Raeburn
1995-04-26 7:03 ` Mike Meissner
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