RE: gas/ia64 "data in a code section" problem

[Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 22:40, Belochapka, Konstantin wrote:
> Of course I agree that if anyone puts a data into code segment does this at his own risk. But my point is that an assembler also should not any restriction based on assumption of any potential problem. 
> The situation when IA64 assembler starts next bundle from an address that is not aligned on 16 bytes
> in my opinion is a bug that need to be corrected or it might be mentioned in a README file that after a data .align 16 directive is a requirement. But emitting error message would be not good solution, warning might be more appropriate.

A similar problem was reported against the PowerPC assembler a few days
ago.  See binutils bug 248.
    http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248
A patch was added that generates an error for misaligned PPC
instructions.
    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-07/msg00017.html

I added a patch so we get the same error for misaligned IA-64
instructions.  It is attached.  You will need the above referenced patch
for this one to work.  This should make it easier to identify places
where you need to emit an alignment directive.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com

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