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Re: powerpc patch 6 of 9
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:05:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: powerpc patch 6 of 9
>>>>> Alan Modra writes:
Alan> The ELF size of the function includes the traceback table. Since the
Alan> traceback table includes a string, you end up with sizes that are not
Alan> multiples of four, and trigger asserts in gas/dwarf2dbg.c. Of course,
Alan> this was all before you removed the table for ELF. Still, I think
Alan> it's a good idea to ensure that functions emit word-sized chunks.
Alan> I'm not sure what might go wrong now: Perhaps global asm statements,
Alan> or var decls with a text section attribute?
Ah! So you are trying to ensure that the end of the function is
aligned to a whole word for the ELF size information. I was only worried
about the alignment of the next function.
If that is the reason, then this patch is okay and I will add it.
Thanks, David