Paul Koning <paul_kon...@dell.com> writes: > It looks like the compiler is generating appropriate code but gas > isn't doing the right thing with it, at least not consistently. > > With this test program, compiled with GCC 4.1.2 mipsel-netbsdelf: > > int i = 3; > char foo[17] __attribute__ ((aligned(32))); > > I get .bss aligned 2**4.
That's not a bug. The symbol is defined in the COMMON section, not the .bss section. You can use -fno-common to tell the compiler to put the symbol into the .bss section. But either way the final linked executable should have the symbol properly aligned. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
