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Re: MIPS gas problem
- To: Hiroyuki Machida <machida at sm dot sony dot co dot jp>
- Subject: Re: MIPS gas problem
- From: "Koundinya.K" <kk at ddeorg dot soft dot net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:37:56 +0530
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, linux at cthulhu dot engr dot sgi dot com, debian-mips at lists dot debian dot org
machida@sm.sony.co.jp said:
-> Hi
-> I found the problem "__attribute__ ((aligned(xx))" doesn't work
-> properly on MIPS/Linux. Please try to execute the attached test. I
-> think this problem can be reproduced on any ELF/MIPS box except
-> EMBEDED system which has OS name "elf".
-> I tracked down and finaly found gas/config/t-mips.c:s_change_sec(sec)
-> sets always ".rodata" section-alignment to 2**4. This should be set
-> to the maximum rodata object's alignment value.
I am seeing something different (gcc 2.95.2 and binutils from snapshot
000213) on my mips based machine (mips-dde-sysv4.2MP)
[~] gcc -c rotest.c -o rotest.o
rotest.c:8: warning: alignment of `global1' is greater than maximum object
file alignment. Using 8.
rotest.c:9: warning: alignment of `global2' is greater than maximum object
file alignment. Using 8.
rotest.c:11: warning: alignment of `local1' is greater than maximum object
file alignment. Using 8.
rotest.c:12: warning: alignment of `local2' is greater than maximum object
file alignment. Using 8.
koundinya