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
