.align and .balign?

[utmandrew]

Could I get an example of how to use the alignment directives (if they're supported)? I see examples of how to print strings, bytes, etc. but didn't see a memory alignment example that uses .align or .balign from the RISC assembly manual.

Specifically:

.data
array1:     .byte      97, 98, 99
.align      4
integer:    .word      42

Entering the code above puts a syntax warning under the .align line, so I don't think it's recognized. When run, any directives after the align are ignored.

Thanks!

[mortbopet]

Which version of Ripes are you using? For me, using the most recent (v2.2.0), no syntax warnings are present and the data is emitted as expected:

[utmandrew]

Ripes-2.2.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage -- I'll try an update. Thank you.

Update: 2.2.2 works fine. Thanks again!

[mortbopet]

The issue might be that .balign is not implemented in the Ripes assembler - I only checked the .align, as posted in your code. Unfortunately, only a subset of the directives supported listed in https://github.com/riscv/riscv-asm-manual/blob/master/riscv-asm.md are supported in the built-in Ripes assembler. Supporting more directives is mostly a matter of them being implemented, and not so much a matter of complexity, see: https://github.com/mortbopet/Ripes/blob/master/src/assembler/gnudirectives.cpp