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PATCH: Why does gas put padding on ia64?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:46:10AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:01:24AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > rth added the feature on 2000-12-28.  It's been hacked on a bit
> > > since.  x86 doesn't pad because we define SUB_SEGMENT_ALIGN.
> > 
> > Richard, is that really necessary? Intel ia64 assembler doesn't do
> > that. I can't see why gas has to do that. I may have missed something.
> 
> It's not necessary since ld now can emit proper nops 
> between code sections.
> 
> 

Here is a patch to remove it. I can delete md_section_align instead of
commenting it out.


H.J.

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