[nhc-bugs] build failure

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> writes:

> It's actually every .align, not just the first one, that is .align 2, so
> I assume they should all be changed.

Is it possible that, in the MIPS assembler, the .align instruction is
coded as powers of two rather than absolute numbers?

> Is there a reason why you don't do
>     sed "s/\.align [0-9]\+/.align 4/"
> rather than fixing them on a case-by-case basis?

I'm not certain that all alignments should be 4 byte.  Doubles are 8,
although I don't offhand remember whether we generate any of those
in the bytecode itself.

Regards,
    Malcolm