Section alignment

[Dominik Fröhlich]

Hello,

we'dike to use the Microtec C-compiler for m68k targets together with gdb. 
The compiler can generate IEEE-695 output, my gdb needs coff as input, so we
convert between these formats with objcopy with:

objcopy -I ieee -O coff-m68k --debugging somefile.abs somefile.coff

Unfortunately objcopy generates all sections to longs (4), but some
parts of my program assume word alignment (2), hence the program doesn't work
anymore. 

Q: Is there a general and easy solution to adjust the alignment for a section
when converted with objcopy ? Changing the linker scripts is not possible, 
because that'd lead to maintainance problems and conflicts with our other tools.

Thanks in advance

Dominik
   
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