Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> writes:

> I wonder if perhaps somebody wanted these arrays to have an
> alignment of "8" but didn't realize that the sparc .common directive
> takes _logarithmic_ alignment values instead of linear ones.

Huh?  Alignment directives (in both .align and .common) on the SPARC
aren't logarithmic, neither in ELF nor (unlike on the x86) a.out
toolchains.


-klaus