[PATCH][BZ 18960] setlocale.c: Mark *_used symbols as unaligned.

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 14:52:00 GMT 2015


On 09/28/2015 04:18 PM, Rich Felker wrote:

> Can you explain how/why you think this is needed? char has no
> alignment requirements (inherently) so as far as I can tell, the
> compiler may not make any alignment assumptions about an extern object
> of type char.

s390(x) expects all top-level objects in the data segment to be aligned
to at least 2.  As far as I can tell, this is not explicitly mentioned
in the psABI supplement, but it is heavily implied by .align directives
and use of the lalr instruction.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security



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