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Re: x86 alignment stuff
- To: john at feith dot com (John Wehle)
- Subject: Re: x86 alignment stuff
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:50:08 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
> Don't know that it's needed for freebsd-elf since FreeBSD-3.0 (which is stil
> in development) is the first release to officially support a native ELF tool
> chain. It currently uses binutils-2.8.1 which supports MAX_SKIP_ALIGN (the
> development tree never included an older version of binutils for use with
> ELF). I would be very suprise to see someone doing a cross to freebsd-elf
> using a version of binutils older than 2.8.1.
>
> On the other hand, it certainly doesn't hurt to have the protective #ifdef.
I agree that it's not strictly needed. However, keeping it doesn't
hurt and avoids someone copying the freebsd-elf version into another
target file for a system that can/does have older versions of the
assembler.
jeff