Add new alignment parameter to func assembler macro
Assembler programmers are used to being able to define functions with a
specific aligment with a pattern like this:
.align X
myfunction:
However, this pattern is subtly broken when instead of a direct label
like 'myfunction:', you use the 'func myfunction' macro that's standard
in Trusted Firmware. Since the func macro declares a new section for the
function, the .align directive written above it actually applies to the
*previous* section in the assembly file, and the function it was
supposed to apply to is linked with default alignment.
An extreme case can be seen in Rockchip's plat_helpers.S which contains
this code:
[...]
endfunc plat_crash_console_putc
.align 16
func platform_cpu_warmboot
[...]
This assembles into the following plat_helpers.o:
Sections:
Idx Name Size [...] Algn
9 .text.plat_crash_console_putc 00010000 [...] 2**16
10 .text.platform_cpu_warmboot 00000080 [...] 2**3
As...
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