> > The largest alignment which is ever used would be page alignment, and
> > the SPARC V9 ELF ABI specifies that pages have a maximum 1MB alignment.
> > So this %$#%%$#% directive is causing my BSS segment to be 1MB aligned,
> > which I don't think is the desired effect.
> 
> But that's not 2**16 which is what your dump of the object file reported.
> ... um ... never mind.

You're right.  That's what, 64KB?  That's the SPARC v8 ELF ABI page size.
Wonderful.  'Nother compiler bug.  At least it's not very important.

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