ELF64 note sections

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Sep 19 01:29:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:55:21AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Which will have the same problem the other use of
> __attribute__((packed)) in that file has: binutils will silently
> generate incorrect output when built with a non-GNU compiler.

Only on architectures where the ABI specifies unusual padding of
structs.  According to the ChangeLog, the arch that needed "packed"
was ARM.  Do ARM people use something other than gcc to compile
binutils?

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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