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Re: ALIGN directive showing different behavior than documented
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- To: Andre Vieira <Andre dot SimoesDiasVieira at arm dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 10:47:19 -0700
- Subject: Re: ALIGN directive showing different behavior than documented
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- References: <559BD727 dot 20802 at arm dot com> <20150708130127 dot GC28641 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org>
> I wonder how many scripts rely on the old behaviour? If I don't hear
> any objections to this change, I'll install the following in a day or
> two.
If it helps, gold treats ALIGN(x) identically to ALIGN(., x). Of the
many scripting incompatibilities between ld and gold that have been
reported, this hasn't been one of them (that I know of).
-cary