For historic reasons, the behavior of .align differs between targets.
Fortunately, there are alternatives, .p2align and .balign, which make the
interpretation of the parameter explicit, and which behave consistently across
targets.
This patch teaches MC to use .p2align instead of .align, so that people reading
code for multiple architectures don't have to remember which way each platform
does its .align directive.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16549
llvm-svn: 258750
Functions with jump tables need an alignment of 4 because they use the ADR
instruction, which aligns the PC to 4 bytes before adding an offset.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9424
llvm-svn: 236327
This appears to have been introduced back in r76698 as part of an unrelated
change. I can find no official ARM documentation stating that Thumb-2 functions
require 4-byte alignment; in fact, ARM documentation appears to contradict
this (see, e.g., ARM Architecture Reference Manual Thumb-2 Supplement,
section 2.6.1: "Thumb-2 enforces 16-bit alignment on all instructions.").
Also remove code that sets alignment for ARM functions, which is redundant
with code in the MachineFunction constructor, and remove the hidden
-arm-align-constant-islands flag, which has been enabled by default since
r146739 (Dec 2011) and has probably received sufficient testing by now.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9138
llvm-svn: 235636
Dan Gohman