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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:10:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: .align directives in libc.a
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> Then I suggest to aim at having the next release of Binutils use
> 16-byte section alignment for DJGPP.  Do you agree?

If changing the alignment will help programs run faster, then I'm all for 
it. 

> 
> > The tests were done with BFD assembler updated from CVS late
> > yesterday.
> 
> I understand that the assembler used, whether BFD or not, doesn't
> affect neither the alignment issue, nor anything else.  Am I missing
> something?

I mentioned it because it possible, given the mostly different code used 
to generate object files, that there might be some differences. 
Consider that until a few months ago, BFD assembler didn't even work 
with DJGPP.



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