[PATCH v2 1/1] Fix IAT (Import Address Table) alignment on AArch64

[Evgeny Karpov]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2026, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Hmm, so we're back to square 1 as far as the actual code change is concerned.
> Further, I don't see how the link is related here. As you said yourself in a
> reply on the v1 thread, there's no talk of alignment there. Neither your text
> nor what is said there really addresses what I asked for in [1].

v3 will contain more generic changes to apply alignment to the IAT for PE32+.

> I also continue to be unhappy about the adhoc, hard-coded 3 in here. As
> indicated, imo the function would better consult secdata_plain[], with that
> in turn getting edited suitably (either at runtime, or by splitting the
> "align" field into a pair of fields, one for PE32 and the other for PE32+).
> The tool as a whole really wants to be self-consistent.
 
secdata*.align will be adjusted for PE32+.

> Yet further, as also indicated already, I don't follow why .idata$4 wouldn't
> need (or at least want) treating the same. It also contains 8-byte elements
> in PE32+.

.idata$4 emits the Import Lookup Table, which was not the purpose of this patch to resolve
issues with relocating symbols from IAT when the function is called.
 
> Finally you still leave make_delay_head() entirely alone, when - as
> indicated before as well - it clearly has the same issue.

v3 will contain changes in make_delay_head.

Regards,
Evgeny