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Re: avoid NULL pointer ambiguity in mn10300 sim
On Jun 3, 2004, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Jun 2, 2004, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Should that offset be aligned (i.e. 4 or 8)?
>> It could, but it would just increase the waste. If any of the other
>> sections needs alignment, it shall require alignment itself.
> I don't think 3 more bytes is that much of a burden.
Indeed, but the first section is the interp name, that imposes no
alignment requirements, and certainly isn't required to end at an
aligned address, so making it 4 instead of 1 is guaranteed to be a
waste without any possible benefit.
But I don't care enough about these 3 bytes to fight to have them back
:-)
> I'll check in the change.
Thanks,
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