From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: PR ld/13616: linker should pad executable sections with nops, not zeros
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120131071402.GD12169@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120126193540.GA4071@intel.com>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:35:40AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> Linker pads text sections with nop via linker script. It doesn't work
> on orphaned sections. This patch adds a fill function to bfd_arch_info
> so that each arch can provide appropriate no-op sequence based on size
> and endian. I added x86 fill function and the default fill function
> keeps existing behavior. I also changed the x86 ELF linkers to use x86
> fill function instead of fixed no-op. OK to install?
OK. Bump bfd version to 2.22.52 (bfd/configure.in:AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE).
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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