Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] configure tests?

[Michael Dickens]

> > >  in test.asm (syntax could be wrong...)
> > >
> > >         .globl _start_test, _end_test
> > >
> > >         .align  16
> > >  _start_test:
> > >         .db     1
> > >        .align  4
> > >  _end_test:
> > >
> > > Then use nm to extract the resulting symbol values, followed by some
> > > python, etc to compute difference.
> >
> > Yes, something like that, but '.align 16' is too big.  sed could do
> > the trick too.
>
> By too big, do you mean that some tool complains?

gcc complains that "Alignment too large: 15. assumed."  I guess 
alignment can be at most 2^15, but 2^16 is too big ... not sure what 
the page size on OSX is but they're probably related.  Anyway, testing 
for ".align 4" is pretty safe. - MLD