10.1.10 Output details

‘-a number’

‘--alignment=number’

Align strings to number bytes (default: 1).

‘--endianness=byteorder’

Write out 32-bit numbers in the given byte order. The possible values are big and little. The default depends on the platform, namely on the endianness of the CPU.

MO files of any endianness can be used on any platform. When a MO file has an endianness other than the platform’s one, the 32-bit numbers from the MO file are swapped at runtime. The performance impact is negligible.

This option can be useful to produce MO files that are independent of the platform.

‘--no-hash’

Don’t include a hash table in the binary file. Lookup will be more expensive at run time (binary search instead of hash table lookup).

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