------- Comment #2 from davek at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-01-17 16:13 ------- Created an attachment (id=19637) --> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=19637&action=view) binutils support
This is needed to extend the .section directive in the pe-coff port of gas so that we can tell it to byte-align the lto sections. See Bug 40392 for why we need the sections to be byte-aligned (actually just byte-size-granularitied, but the way COFF works at the moment in binutils the two are linked) and Bug 40754 for why this would be bad on a risc platform (but it's ok on x86 where we can do misaligned accesses.) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42776
