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Re: Problem with ld for PDP-11

I have submitted bug 25569 with a patch for this proposed fix.

                                                        -- Steve

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Stephen Casner wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> > The correct fix then is to add a check that the original data size was
> > odd.  That might not be easy as you may have lost the original data
> > size by the time this code runs.  The AOUT code is a bit of a mess.
>
> Here's an alternative idea, if it would not be a logical scope
> violation to access the "where" member:  check abfd->where to see if
> an odd byte has been written, and if so add a padding byte.
>
> > Oh, and if there is no data then it's the text section that might need
> > extending.
>
> That should not be a concern because PDP11 instruction must always be
> a multiple of words long.
>
>                                                         -- Steve
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