Re: not working alignment in as + ld

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Sergey,

> Using gcc's __attribute__((align(16))) functionality (necessary for sse2
> and partially sse) results in the compiler correctly generating
> .align directives.
> They are not ignored by the assembler and generated symbols are properly
> aligned in single object-file. But the size of object file is not 16-byte
> aligned. Linked by ld it will be no more aligned in resulting data
> segments. 
> As workaround (and probably as fix) I copied the part of coff-go32.c file
> into pe-i386.c and pei-i386.c files in BFD-library to force gas to produce
> 16-bytes aligned data-segments like it is done for i386-GO32 platform.

Thanks very much for suggesting this fix.  I have applied a patch to
the relevant files.

Cheers
        Nick

2002-06-14  Sergey Grigoriev  <address@hidden>

        * pei-i386.c (COFF_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_ENTRIES): Enable 16 byte
        alignment for .bss, .data and .text sections so that sse and sse2
        code will work.
        * pe-i386.c (COFF_SECTION_ALIGNMENT_ENTRIES): Likewise.