leading padding in ELF segment

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:45:57PM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> The first segment contains exactly the .text section.  The 2nd segment 
> starts immediately after that, so the .data section is some 0x15d8 bytes 
> into it.  The .text section's file offset is aligned to the .text section's 
> alignment.  The .data section's file offset is not so aligned.  Although I 
> can't find words in the ELF spec to suppose that a section's file offset 
> should be aligned, Diab does seem to be behaving inconsistently here.
> 
> Question:  Is this a well formed ELF file?  AFAICT it is.

I think Diab is behaving strangely, but not inconsistently, and I think
that the file is well formed.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery