From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryan Ford To: gas2@cygnus.com Subject: .align behavior in gas Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 16:10:00 -0000 Message-id: <199504252316.RAA09079@schirf.cs.utah.edu> X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00074.html 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 --- Bryan Ford baford@cs.utah.edu University of Utah, CSS `finger baford@schirf.cs.utah.edu' for PGP key and other info.