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Re: [PATCH] elf: Properly compute offsets of desc and next note
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:27 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to update the gABI document to say that the alignment
>> of individual notes must be equal to the alignment of their containing
>> section or segment, and not dependent upon their ELF class ?
>
> This is implied. All notes in one PT_NOTE segment must have the same
> alignment. Otherwise, you can't parse notes.
>
>> Alternatively, if we are going to have special cases for certain notes,
>> then these ought to be covered in the gABI document, and we need to
>> consider if there are other notes, possibly for non-x86 architectures,
>> that need to be covered as well.
>>
>
> I will send an email to gABI.
>
See:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/vT-_QVcckXo
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H.J.