From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
To: donn@verinet.com
Cc: snowball3@bigfoot.com, binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, djgpp-workers@delorie.com
Subject: Re: DJGPP and alignment
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:13:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990722071323.20692.qmail@daffy.airs.com>
References: <199907211607.QAA38452@out1.ibm.net> <199907220030.AAA09334@out5.ibm.net> <19990722003428.12362.qmail@daffy.airs.com> <37968ECF.E35A6119@verinet.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q3/msg00290.html

   Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:23:59 -0600
   From: Donn Terry <donn@verinet.com>

   In the case of .ctors and .dtors, I think Ian is
   right to characterize
   the zeros as "unsightly".  For  .idata and .pdata, they're catastrophic.

Just for the record, I was being facetious.  Zeroes are also
catastrophic in .ctors and .dtors.  The code in gcc's crtbegin file
will call each address in the .ctors section.  If there is a zero
there, it will wind up jumping to the zero address.

Ian