[webkit-dev] LLInt alignment problem on ARM

2013-09-26 Thread Gabor Rapcsanyi
Hello! I'm fighting with a strange LLInt alignment problem on ARM. As I see we put the LLInt code into .rodata section instead of .text. Is there a specific reason why we are doing this? If there is not I would put them to the .text section. Here is the objdump:

Re: [webkit-dev] LLInt alignment problem on ARM

2013-09-26 Thread Oliver Hunt
I believe that there’s a mnemonic that forces alignment that we could (arguably should?) be using before these labels. IIRC it’s something like .align N — if we aren’t doing this already we could make the lint assembler backend emit a .align 16 prior to each global symbol. —Oliver On Sep 26,

Re: [webkit-dev] LLInt alignment problem on ARM

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Saboff
I’m wondering if the alignment is the traditional ARM vs Thumb 2. The movw after lint_begin with hex 0xe30b3eef is a Thumb 2 instruction. - Michael On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Oliver Hunt oli...@apple.com wrote: I believe that there’s a mnemonic that forces alignment that we could