aarch64-pe can't fill 16 bytes in section .text

[Jan Beulich]

On 18.11.2022 09:52, Zac Walker via Binutils wrote:
> Patch merged just now. (Was a holiday here yesterday)
> 
> I am still investigating another alignment problem so might be another follow up patch. This code from OpenBLAS:
> 
> data_ar:
>  .word 0x3e44fae6
> data_ai:
>  .word 0x3d320fa2
> start:
>  ldr s20, data_ar
>  ldr s21, data_ai 
> 
> Produces:
> 
> zscal-min.s:2: Warning: value 0x3e44fae6 truncated to 0xfae6
> zscal-min.s:4: Warning: value 0x3d320fa2 truncated to 0xfa2
> zscal-min.s:7: Error: pc-relative load offset not word aligned
> 
> Works ok with clang. I am not sure if .word data should be aligned by default in gas or this is just a difference in behaviour.

.word is overridden by tc-aarch64.c only for ELF. So in your COFF (aiui)
case .word emits just two bytes instead of the expected four. Hence also
the warnings, not just the error.

Jan