[PATCH]: new ALIGNTOATLEAST linker script directive

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Nov 10 22:04:00 GMT 2009


"David Stubbs" <stubbs@IceraSemi.com> writes:

> This patch adds a new ALIGNTOATLEAST linker script directive. This
> simplifies some of our linker scripts, and makes them a lot easier to
> read.

It's a fine idea, but it seems to me that you can do this kind of
thing already.  I think that rather than add an increasing number of
utility functions to the linker script language, it would make more
sense to encourage preprocessing of linker scripts in some way.

Ian



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