[Bug binutils/6914] New: global symbol alignment is not covered at all

[sherpya at netfarm dot it]

Recent versions of binutils added support for lcomm alignment, this needs a
patch in gcc that is not integrated, perhaps I've discovered that global symbols
alignment is not covered at all (comm has only size on win32)
16-byte alignment is mandatory for sse ops

I've looked in binutils code but it's not easy to understand what to change

If I've understood on elf, a "comment" is added that says size and alignment
this can be easily added also for win32 but who and when use this info?

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           Summary: global symbol alignment is not covered at all
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.20 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: sherpya at netfarm dot it
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-mingw32
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-mingw32
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-mingw32


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6914

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