[PATCH] as: Align note section to 4 bytes

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:49 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> gABI specifies that PT_NOTE alignment should be aligned to 4 bytes
> for 32-bit objects and to 8 bytes for 64-bit objects.  But on Linux,
> .note.ABI-tag and .note.gnu.build-id notes are always aligned to 4
> bytes.  We allow either 4 byte or 8 byte alignments.
>
> OK for master?
>
> H.J.
> ---
>         * readelf.c (process_notes_at): Return FALSE if alignment of
>         note section isn't 4 nor 8 bytes.

This patch is incorrect.  Here is the updated patch, which also fixes
incorrect note section alignment:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22492

-- 
H.J.
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