Ken Thomases <ken@codeweavers.com> writes:

> On Mar 6, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Chip Davis <cdavis@codeweavers.com> wrote:
>>
>> March 6, 2019 7:01 PM, "Ken Thomases" <ken@codeweavers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On macOS, the .align <n> directive aligns to 2^n, not just n.
>>
>> I wonder if we should explicitly use '.balign 8', since that always means "align to 8 bytes." Unless, of course, there are platforms that don't support it.
>
> This is a general issue that winebuild also explicitly contends with,
> and it isn't using .balign (nor .p2align).  See
> tools/winebuild/utils.c:get_alignment().  So, I assume .balign isn't
> an acceptable solution.  I'd be happy to be told otherwise, though.

It's not supported on Solaris, which was the reason for the winebuild
code. I'm not sure if anybody still cares about Solaris nowadays...

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Alexandre Julliard
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