[LLVMdev] ambiguity of .align

[Sandeep Patel]

Assuming you're working with an ARM target, you may also hit a problem
with the alignment option on the .comm directive.

Attached is a first-cut patch for this latter problem.

deep

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Edmund Grimley Evans
<Edmund.Grimley-Evans at arm.com> wrote:
> I just got this error message from the GNU assembler:
>
> Error: alignment too large: 15 assumed
>
> Which made me laugh at first. The corresponding input line was:
>
>        .align  16
>
> Apparently what's going on here is that ".align 16" is ambiguous: on
> some architectures it means ".balign 16", and on some it means ".p2align
> 16", which would mean ".balign 65536" if it were allowed. See:
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/gas-2.9.1/html_node/as_68.html
>
> I'm not sure what the best way is to fix this. If LLVM wants to support
> other assemblers presumably an architecture-dependency is required.
>
> Edmund
>
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