no padding at all

["Christian Groessler" <cpg@aladdin.de>]

Hello,

I've build a crosscompiler for alpha-linuxelf, hosted on i486-pc-linux.
I understand that running a compiler for a 64bit target on a 32bit host
may (will?) give suboptimal optimization. But now I've encountered a
problem, I think it's a bug(tm):

This file

/*--------*/
char *labels[] = {
     "beef",
     "babe",
     "cafe",
     "zap!"
};
/*--------*/

compiles to the following, when compiled on the alpha:
(with an older egcs version, parameters: gcc -O2 -S stralign.c -o
stralign.s)

---------
     .file     1 "stralign.c"
     .version  "01.01"
     .set noat
gcc2_compiled.:
__gnu_compiled_c:
     .globl labels
.data
     .align 3
     .type      labels,@object
labels:
     .quad $LC0
     .quad $LC1
     .quad $LC2
     .quad $LC3
.section  .rodata
     .align 3
$LC3:
     .ascii "zap!\0"
     .align 3
$LC2:
     .ascii "cafe\0"
     .align 3
$LC1:
     .ascii "babe\0"
     .align 3
$LC0:
     .ascii "beef\0"
     .size      labels,32
     .ident    "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)"
---------

Please note the "align 3" btw. the strings.
Now, compiled on the intel host for target alpha:

---------
     .file     1 "stralign.c"
     .set noat
     .set noreorder
     .globl labels
.data
     .align 3
     .type      labels,@object
labels:
     .quad $LC0
     .quad $LC1
     .quad $LC2
     .quad $LC3
.section  .rodata
$LC3:
     .ascii "zap!\0"
$LC2:
     .ascii "cafe\0"
$LC1:
     .ascii "babe\0"
$LC0:
     .ascii "beef\0"
     .size      labels,32
     .ident    "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)"
---------

So there is no alignment at all!
Am I to expect such behaviour, or went something wrong when
I configured/built the crosscompiler?

thanks for your help
chris


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