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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/dw2-*.exp
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Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:12:01 +0100
>> 
>> On ia64 the .short/.int/.quad directives always generate aligned fields,
>> adding padding as necessary.  For DWARF tables the .2byte/.4byte/.8byte
>> directives should be used instead.
>
> I've never seen these.  Are they supported by all versions of gas?

Since the beginning of time, err, dwarf support (older than the import to
sourceware anyway, which was nearly 8 years ago).

Andreas.

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