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Re: Three more days left before the 2.30 release...
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:46:45 +0000
- Subject: Re: Three more days left before the 2.30 release...
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Hi H.J.,. Hi Mark,
>> Could you take a look at the bug and proposed fix for
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22749
>> "Bad alignment and padding of .note.gnu.property"
>>
>> This breaks existing code that depends on the normal way GNU ELF notes
> Currently only .note.gnu.property section follows the gABI. Since they
> are placed in a separate note section/segment which contains only
> one such note, it shouldn't be an issue since you don't need to use
> alignment to check the next note. I believe these tools should be
> updated to follow gABI without breaking backward compatibility
> like what we did in binutils and glibc.
Mark - can you confirm/deny this. If there is only one note in the section
does the section alignment matter ?
Cheers
Nick