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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2016-06-27 13:49:09 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2016-06-27 13:51:06 +0100
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Add command line option to stop the assembler from padding the end of sections to their alignment boundary.
PR gas/20247 * as.h (do_not_pad_sections_to_alignment): New global variable. * as.c (show_usage): Add --no-pad-sections. (parse_args): Likewise. * write.c (size_seg): Skip padding the end of the section if requested from the command line. (SUB_SEGMENT_ALIGN): Likewise. * doc/as.texinfo: Document the new option. * NEWS: Mention the new feature. * testsuite/gas/elf/section11.s: New test. * testsuite/gas/elf/section11.d: New test driver. * testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp: Run the new test.
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+* Add --no-pad-sections to stop the assembler from padding the end of output
+ sections up to their alignment boundary.
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* Support for the ARMv8-M architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support
for the ARMv8-M Security and DSP Extensions has also been added to the ARM
port.