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Re: gas section alignment restriction
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:35:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: gas section alignment restriction
- References: <s133028e.041@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:34:23AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why gas, in s_align(), restricts the
> alignment that one can set to 2**15, independent of object file format
> or any other auxiliary information? For COFF this would seem to be an an
> overly large value, while for ELF the value is too rigid (can't even
> align a section to a page boundary on systems where the page size is
> 64k).
FWIW, I've seen no ill effects from disabling that test for ELF.
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Daniel Jacobowitz