Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39

[Ralf Baechle]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:22:14PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> You seem to be contradicting yourself here. I'm concerned about having
> "structures" of a size not power of two. Can we simply either
> 
> - Add a padding element at the end
> or
> - use .align 4*sizeof(long) at the beginning
> 
> to make sure the linker won't put any holes when it puts objects 
> together ?

It may only be a technicality but but careful with .align.  On some
architectures .align x will align to a multiple of x; on other
architectures to 2^x.  Another reason to stick to C wherever possible.

  Ralf
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