[PATCH] program header instability

[Nathan Sidwell]

Alan Modra wrote:

> I'm not so keen on never reducing the size.  The thing is that we have
> two ways we set the size.  The first is the guess we make in
> get_program_header_size (triggerred by SIZEOF_HEADERS in a link
> script), the second is the value calculated from a previous iteration
> of the segment layout code.  get_program_header_size can make quite a
> poor guess.  So I reckon we ought to allow shrinkage on the first
> iteration (or maybe first few iterations) of the gld*_map_segments
> loop.  Would you mind making that change?

This one seems to to do the trick. Tested on i686-pc-linux-gnu, ok?

nathan

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