Re: build failure

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:18:21 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.bugs
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> writes:

> It's actually every .align, not just the first one, that is .align 2, so
> I assume they should all be changed.

Is it possible that, in the MIPS assembler, the .align instruction is
coded as powers of two rather than absolute numbers?

> Is there a reason why you don't do
>     sed "s/\.align [0-9]\+/.align 4/"
> rather than fixing them on a case-by-case basis?

I'm not certain that all alignments should be 4 byte.  Doubles are 8,
although I don't offhand remember whether we generate any of those
in the bytecode itself.

Regards,
    Malcolm