[fpc-pascal] Variable alignment in arm-embedded

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 08.06.2012 14:37, schrieb Jeppe Græsdal Johansen:
> Den 08-06-2012 14:28, Ludo Brands skrev:
>>> Thanks Ludo,
>>>
>>> I'll take that as a starting point. I hope I will not need the "lost"
>>> 256 bytes in the future.
>> I could be wrong but AFAIK if the compiler would do the alignment, the
>> loss
>> can also be up to 255 bytes. Here you lose 256 bytes in all cases.
> Yes, but this would allow the linker to place other stuff there which
> fits in less than 255 bytes.
>
> Wasting 255 bytes is a lot on systems that only has a few kilobytes of
> RAM. I wonder if the restriction of 32 bytes on the align directive
> could just be removed, or will we need some sort of linker script changes?

It could be removed but I'am pretty sure that the linker does not use 
the alignment space for other stuff.