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Re: [PATCH] ARM - gas: Maximum alignment size augmented to 64


On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:19 -0300, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> Hi,
>   in the attached patch, the maximum allowed code alignment has been increased from
> 32 to 64 bytes. This change affects the .p2align and .align directives in GAS and the
> -falign-functions GCC option.
> 
> I tested the code by running the gas testsuite, including the new test case I added.
> 
> Please review it, and commit it for me if accepted since I don't have write access.
> 
> Thanks,
>    Daniel.
> 
> --
> 2009-06-17  Daniel Gutson  <dgutson@codesourcery.com>
> 
>         gas/
>         * config/tc-arm.c (arm_frag_align_code): Fixed the string message.
>         * config/tc-arm.h (MAX_MEM_ALIGNMENT_BYTES): New macro.
>         (MAX_MEM_FOR_RS_ALIGN_CODE): Macro changed to use the above.
> 
>         gas/testsuite/
>         * gas/arm/align64.d: New file.
>         * gas/arm/align64.s: New file.
> 

This is OK as far as it goes, but why is there a limit at all?  Other
architectures don't seem to be restricted in this way.

R.



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