From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 8 22:06:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26638 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26633 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02982; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199807090506.WAA02982@austin.polstra.com> To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM Subject: Re: .palign 2 In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 22:06:06 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Ron G. Minnich wrote: > I tried -questions but no dice. So here I am: > > On the latest tree, at some point in the gnu side, I get an error due to > an op in read.S, > .palign 2 > > Any ideas? It appears to be hidden in one of the gnu standard Macros From > Hell, since read.S itself is just two lines, an include and a macro > invocation. This isn't really an answer, but ... I'm aware of a ".p2align" directive, but I've never heard of ".palign". ".p2align" aligns to 2**n, where n is the argument. I added support for it quite some time ago. It's handy because it means the same thing for a.out as for ELF. Whereas the old ".align n" aligned to a multiple of n for a.out, but a multiple of 2**n for ELF. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message