Re: ix86_data_alignment: bad defaults?

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> One extra bit - we do use alignments of base > 32 bytes for code
> alignment.  What would be the behaviour on targets with
> MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT set to 16 bytes?

min (MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT, 32) of course.

> I.e. if we end up with gas producing many nops that would then on  
> random
> basis end up 16 or 32 byte aligned, it might be good idea to forcingly
> reduce alignments to base 16 on those targets.

Agreed.

The assembler should produce a hard error if one asks it for an  
alignment that can't be satisfied.