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Re: [REVISED][PATCH/RFT] Fix PR middle-end/PR28690, modify swap_commutative_operands_p
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:46:48AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> 2) It seems like we could do better than the all or nothing alignment
> .p2align gives us. Obviously, we can't change the behavior of
> .p2align, but it would have been nice (maybe a different/new
> alignment macro?) if instead of giving up completely, it would have
> increased the alignment as much as it could up to the requested 16
> bytes within the 7 byte skip maximum. So for example, if we
> currently have 2 byte alignment and we ask for 16 byte alignment,
> wouldn't it be nice if it gave us 8 byte alignment (which is within
> 7 bytes) rather than giving up completely?
That would be '.p2align 3', wouldn't it?
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