Jeff, On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 17:37, Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11/13/22 13:41, Philipp Tomsich wrote: > > RISC-V's .p2align (currently) ignores the max-skip argument. As we > have experimental patches underway to address this in a > backwards-compatible manner, let's prepare GCC for the day when > binutils gets updated. > > gcc/ChangeLog: > > * config/riscv/riscv.h (ASM_OUTPUT_MAX_SKIP_ALIGN): Implement. > > > What are the implications if we start using p2align immediately when the > current (broken?) state of the assembler? I'm pretty sure configure is > already turning on HAVE_GAS_SKIP_P2ALIGN. From a native risc-v build: > > > auto-host.h:#define HAVE_GAS_MAX_SKIP_P2ALIGN 1
This is your tree, which has the (partial fix — i.e., the best we can do without breaking backward compatibility) for .p2align. When building against upstream binutils, this should not be defined. Philipp.