Subject: Re: `__attribute__ ((__aligned__))' has gotta go
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/25/1999 15:54:41
> > The largest alignment which is ever used would be page alignment, and
> > the SPARC V9 ELF ABI specifies that pages have a maximum 1MB alignment.
> > So this %$#%%$#% directive is causing my BSS segment to be 1MB aligned,
> > which I don't think is the desired effect.
>
> But that's not 2**16 which is what your dump of the object file reported.
> ... um ... never mind.
You're right. That's what, 64KB? That's the SPARC v8 ELF ABI page size.
Wonderful. 'Nother compiler bug. At least it's not very important.
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