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Re: Memory alignment bug under iOS

Hi Andrew,

I'm going to merge this discussion with
http://old.nabble.com/please%2C-help-me-with-libffi-on-iOS-porting-td34250621.html#a34300375

Thanks,
Gili

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> On 08/15/2012 03:28 AM, cowwoc wrote:
> 
>> I believe there is a bug in sysv.S's usage of .align 0 under ARM. It
>> wrongfully assumes that Apple's Assembler interprets .align 0 as .align
>> 2.
>> GNU's Assembler certainly does this:
>> http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/ARM-Directives.html
>> 
>> but Apple's does not:
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/developertools/Reference/Assembler/040-Assembler_Directives/asm_directives.html
>> 
>> As a result, the generated code does not align memory correctly. I look
>> forward to your response.
> 
> Can you submit a patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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