[REINSTATED] Re: [PATCH,trunk+2.20.1] Extend COFF .section directive syntax to specify alignment.

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:08:21PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>   What I should have said was: There is currently no way to specify an
> alignment *less than the default section alignment* for a section:

I see.

> or should I revive this patch?

Possibly.  Another option would be to invent a new assembler directive
that resets alignment, or extend existing alignment directives to do
the same.  eg.  ".p2align -1" could align to 2 bytes even if previous
section alignment was higher.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM