[PATCH] ARM - gas: Maximum alignment size augmented to 64

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:27:42PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> This is OK as far as it goes, but why is there a limit at all?  Other
> architectures don't seem to be restricted in this way.

>From reading the code, it seems to be a misunderstanding of the
(quite confusing) frag fields.  An align frag has a fixed part and a
repeating part.  But see the loop at the end of arm_handle_align -
it's repeating the repeating part into an allocated buffer.  That's
not needed.

This has been there since 2001.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery