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Re: [PATCH] Pad SEC_MERGE sections to entsize boundary in gas
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Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>This is presumably just due to lack of alignment padding after the
>>last entry, right? Otherwise the merge code would be rather
>>confused...
>
>
> Yeah. gcc emits something like:
> .section .rodata.cst16,"aM",@progbits,16
> .align 16
> .LC0:
> .long 0
> .long -939524096
> .long 16389
> for long double constants and doesn't put there another .align 16
> after it (or another .long 0).
I actually believe it is gcc's fault.
Why should every entry in a .rodata.cst16 section have .align 16?
Alignment and size are two different issues.
gcc should emit the padding word, too.
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