Re: [PATCH] ELF: make .struct interact with .previous

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 05:43:57PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 05:36:47PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 07:30:16AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:37:18AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > I don't think we should call md_cons_align for ABS section. This patch
> > > > fixes the failure.
> > > 
> > > Why not?  If you need to do something special for the absolute section,
> > > then md_cons_align itself should handle that.
> > 
> > What special alignment can a backend can do for the absolute section?
> > 
> 
> There are
> 
> @item md_cons_align
> @cindex md_cons_align
> You may define this macro to do any special alignment before a data
> allocation pseudo-op.
> 
> But there is no data allocation involved for the absolute section.

The struct test is using a .short, which looks like a data allocation
pseudo-op to me.  If .short should have different alignment when you
happen to use it in the absolute section, then md_cons_align should
reflect that fact.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre