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Misaligned .bss section for PE?

Kai Tietz ktietz70@googlemail.com
Thu May 22 09:50:00 GMT 2008 
Hi Zuxy,

2008/5/22 Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng@gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
>
> Recently I met a crash on MinGW32 caused by misaligned access of SSE
> instructions. The root cause was that a static var wasn't aligned to a
> 16-byte boundary. However, in gcc source this var had already been marked
> with "__attribute__((aligned(16)))".
>
> I then checked the output of "gcc -S" and it turned out that with PE you
> couldn't specify a symbol's alignment. Rather, the alignment was ensured by
> explicit padding. But gcc seemed to do it right, at least within a
> compilation unit. Unfortunately, after hundreds of objects got linked
> together, some symbols' alignment was broken.
>
> I'm just wondering if I should report it as a GCC bug or a binutils one. Any
> help? Thanks!
>
> --
> Zuxy
>
>

This seems to be a spec file problem. If you file a bug report for
this, just tell me the bugzilla number. I will take care about this.

Cheers,
  Kai


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