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Re: Problem with ld for PDP-11

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:02:02PM -0800, Stephen Casner wrote:
> So now I went digging my way back through the code sequence using
> printfs to find where the original data size gets rounded up.  It
> turns out that the size of the data section is always even because the
> assembler "as" or "gas" always pads the data section with a zero byte
> if the size is odd, so the object file header always contains an even
> size for the .data section.  That's because there is always relocation
> and symbol information following it.
> 
> Therefore the size of the .data section in ld is always even

No, a linker script might contribute to .data output.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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