Why does gas put padding on ia64?

[Richard Henderson]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:01:24AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > rth added the feature on 2000-12-28.  It's been hacked on a bit
> > since.  x86 doesn't pad because we define SUB_SEGMENT_ALIGN.
> 
> Richard, is that really necessary? Intel ia64 assembler doesn't do
> that. I can't see why gas has to do that. I may have missed something.

It's not necessary since ld now can emit proper nops 
between code sections.


r~