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Re: strip vs group signature symbols

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 09:07:20AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> 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.

I can adjust testcases to fill sections to 8bytes so that
md_section_align won't make a difference.


H.J.
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