|> What does it mean to say
|>
|> .section .mysection, "ax"
|>
|> specifically, what does the "ax" denote (allocate/executable??)
Yes.
|> Under gcc 2.7.2.3, mysection gets aligned to 4 bytes, whereas
|> on egcs-1.1.2-12, it gets aligned to 16 bytes on an ia32. My
|> code needs to know the alignment, so when I assumed 4 byte
|> alignment, my code compiled on gcc works, but not on egcs.
gcc 2.7.2.3 assumed a maximum alignment of 4 bytes and ignores all
attempts to specify a bigger alignment. egcs has fixed this bug. If your
code fails with egcs then you are making the wrong assumptions. A section
always inherits the maximum of all alignments of its containing objects.
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