Assembler alignment (was Re: a.out binaries that are 66% faster than ELF)

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Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au)
Wed, 5 Mar 1997 10:00:21 +1030 (CST)

> Others have also mentioned the difference in alignment (2,4 for a.out
> and 4,16 for ELF) so I imposed the same alignment on the asm output

They actually align the same. The difference is that ".align x"
aligns to "2**x" with the a.out assembler, and to "x" with the elf
assembler.