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  1. Bug #789198
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 789198

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In , Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote :

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:33 PM, nickc at redhat dot com
<email address hidden> wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12931
>
> Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:
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>           What    |Removed                     |Added
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>             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
>                 CC|                            |nickc at redhat dot com
>         Resolution|                            |FIXED
>
> --- Comment #4 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> 2011-06-29 16:33:44 UTC ---
> Hi Dave,
>
>  Thanks for reporting this problem and providing a patch to fix it too.  I
> think that 2 byte alignment should be fine for thumb-code-containing sections,
> but if someone does come up with a scenario where this assumption does not work
> then we can always fix the assembler again.

That seems reasonable -- I think the proposed fix should be a useful
interim step, since it's pretty simple and makes the situation no
worse.

Did the patch look sensible to you? I'm no gas hacker...

Cheers
---Dave