Re: build failure

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:42:49AM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> I've just had a quick look at this. Between 3.2 and 3.3 gcc seems to
> have changed from generating
> 
> -----
>         .file   "DErrNo.hc"
>         .data
>         .align 4
>         .type   startLabel,@object
>         .size   startLabel,0
> startLabel:
> .globl C0_NHC_46DErrNo_46ERANGE
>         .align 4
> -----
> 
> to generating
> 
> -----
>         .file   "DErrNo.hc"
>         .local  startLabel
>         .comm   startLabel,0,4
> .globl C0_NHC_46DErrNo_46ERANGE
>         .data
>         .align 4
> -----

Just had a look on mips (one of the arches where it currently matters
for me) and both 3.2 and 3.3 are generating ".align 2" rather than
".align 4". As far as I know this hasn't caused a problem in the past.
Have I just been lucky or is this also fine? Or is it something that
should be fixed?


Thanks
Ian