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Why does gas put padding on ia64?


Gas tries to align the section size to the last alignment on ia64. For

        .data
        .align 16
        .byte -1

it puts 15 bytes of 0 after -1. It doesn't hapen on i386. Why does it
do that?


H.J.


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