PT_NOTE alignment, NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0, glibc and gold

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Aug 23 14:44:00 GMT 2018


On 08/23/2018 04:41 PM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
>> glibc 2.28 assumes that no 4-byte-aligned PT_NOTE segments contain GNU
>> property notes and will search for such notes in 8-byte aligned segments
>> only. The glibc changes were formally reviewed and checked for
>> interoperability with BFD ld.  I think we have (had) community consensus
>> for them.
> 
> Not really.

Sorry for being ambiguous.  I was talking about review of the glibc 
changes, not the binutils changes in the paragraph above.

Thanks,
Florian



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