extra alignment/padding when using pe-i386

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:11:11PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote:
> When assembling the following code with an assembler that generates  
> pe-i386 format, the data section gets extra bytes added *after* the  
> constant value.  When the same code is assembled using an assembler that 
> generates elf32-i386, the extra bytes are not present.  Is there a way to 
> make the output of the pe-i386 and elf32-i386 assemblers match?  The 
> pe-i386 assembler is being run under cygwin, and the elf32-i386 assembler 
> is being run under linux.  (Please pardon the line wrapping.)

You are getting the unwanted alignment at bfd/coffcode.h:3368, so
you would need to undef ALIGN_SECTIONS_IN_FILE.  I don't know enough
about COFF/PE to advise you on possible repercussions.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM