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Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/dw2-*.exp
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:37:52 +0100
>
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> >> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:12:01 +0100
> >>
> >> On ia64 the .short/.int/.quad directives always generate aligned fields,
> >> adding padding as necessary. For DWARF tables the .2byte/.4byte/.8byte
> >> directives should be used instead.
> >
> > I've never seen these. Are they supported by all versions of gas?
>
> Since the beginning of time, err, dwarf support (older than the import to
> sourceware anyway, which was nearly 8 years ago).
No objections from me then, assuming you've tested this on something
else besides ia64.
Mark