Three more days left before the 2.30 release...

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 6:54 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 17:08 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
>>   We seem to be on track for creating the 2.30 release this weekend.
>>   So if you have any last minute, can't-live-without bug fixes that
>>   you want to see in the release, now is the time to submit them.
>
> Could you take a look at the bug and proposed fix for
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22749
> "Bad alignment and padding of .note.gnu.property"
>
> This breaks existing code that depends on the normal way GNU ELF notes

Currently only .note.gnu.property section follows the gABI.  Since they
are placed in a separate note section/segment which contains only
one such note,  it shouldn't be an issue since you don't need to use
alignment to check the next note.  I believe these tools should be
updated to follow gABI without breaking backward compatibility
like what we did in binutils and glibc.

> are stored in ELF files. See also the discussion on the gnu-gabi
> mailinglist:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gnu-gabi/2017-q4/threads.html#00028
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark



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H.J.