question about alignment for debug sections

[Randolph Chung]

Hi,

I have a quick question about debug section alignment in an ELF object:

legolas[10:41] % readelf -S module.o |grep debug
  [ 7] .debug_abbrev     PROGBITS        00000000 0031d4 0003ac 00      0   0  1
  [ 8] .debug_info       PROGBITS        00000000 003580 0028fc 00      0   0  1
  [ 9] .rela.debug_info  RELA            00000000 009a6c 0021b4 0c     25   8  4
  [10] .debug_line       PROGBITS        00000000 005e7c 0004e4 00      0   0  1
  [11] .rela.debug_line  RELA            00000000 00bc20 00000c 0c     25   a  4
  [18] .debug_pubnames   PROGBITS        00000000 006988 00019d 00      0   0  1
  [19] .rela.debug_pubna RELA            00000000 00c16c 00000c 0c     25  12  4
  [20] .debug_aranges    PROGBITS        00000000 006b25 000020 00      0   0  1
  [21] .rela.debug_arang RELA            00000000 00c178 000018 0c     25  14  4
  [22] .debug_str        PROGBITS        00000000 006b45 00117c 01  MS  0   0  1

Why are the .debug_* sections not aligned to 4 bytes as well?

(this is on hppa-linux)

thanks
randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
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