On 17/05/2018 8:34 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/16/2018 10:28 AM, Ethan wrote:
(Related: one feature I'd really really really love for linkers to
implement is the ability to mark up certain functions to only ever be
linked at a certain byte boundary. And that's purely because Jaguar
branch prediction often made my profiling tests non-deterministic
between compiles. A NOP is a legit optimisation on those processors.)
Linkers already do that. Alignment is specified on all symbols emitted
by the compiler, and the linker uses that info.
Would allowing align attribute on functions, make sense here for Ethan?
