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Re: strip vs group signature symbols

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:48:45AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> It is caused by md_section_align in s390.

Yes.  MIPS targets fail loadaddr* for the same reason.

> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3207

Some target back-end linker code may assume text size is rounded up to
a multiple of instruction size.  Also, at least one target addresses
memory larger than a byte.  I think we need to keep md_section_align.

> Does s390 really need to pad a section?

That I don't know.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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