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Re: [PATCH] ELF: make .struct interact with .previous

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 05:36:47PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:30:16AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:37:18AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > I don't think we should call md_cons_align for ABS section. This patch
> > > fixes the failure.
> > 
> > Why not?  If you need to do something special for the absolute section,
> > then md_cons_align itself should handle that.
> 
> What special alignment can a backend can do for the absolute section?
> 

There are

@item md_cons_align
@cindex md_cons_align
You may define this macro to do any special alignment before a data
allocation pseudo-op.

But there is no data allocation involved for the absolute section.


H.J.
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