[PATCH 2/2] spec/aarch64: Only apply SUBALIGN(4) to ILP32

[Kinsey Moore]

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> 
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 07:35
To: Kinsey Moore <kinsey.moore at oarcorp.com>; devel at rtems.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] spec/aarch64: Only apply SUBALIGN(4) to ILP32

>On 16/11/2020 14:15, Kinsey Moore wrote:
>
>> The SUBALIGN(4) required on rtemsroset and rtemsrwset for ILP32 builds 
>> was previously present on LP64 builds and causes no issues within 
>> RTEMS, but causes relocation/alignment issues when building libbsd. 
>> This restricts those alignment changes to ILP32 builds.
>
> Please check it in if you think it is necessary.
>
> What troubles me a bit is that these SUBALIGN() stuff is present at all.
>
> It also troubles me that the splinkersets01 test case didn't catch this problem.

That test was what originally caught the problem during development of the A53 BSP. This patch isn't the addition of a fix for the alignment problems, it's an adjustment of the original fix to be compatible with libbsd's use of rtemsroset/rtemsrwset linker sections.

Kinsey