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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Align linkerscript symbols according to ABI
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 12:33:35 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZKeAh/eHJHGzDs8G@squeak.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3e16b1f-0a09-e512-64b1-2d62ed937495@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 11:53:35AM +0200, Andreas Krebbel via Binutils wrote:
> >> Apply ABI specific alignment to symbols generated in the default
> >> linker script.

I think this change is potentially wrong for symbols defined inside an
output section.  Do you really want symbols marking the start and end
of a section to disagree with the actual section, if the section
itself is wrongly aligned?

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-07  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-26  9:16 [PATCH] ld - Add SYMBOL_ABI_ALIGNMENT variable and apply to __bss_start Andreas Krebbel
2023-06-27 14:14 ` Nick Clifton
2023-06-28  6:23   ` Andreas Krebbel
2023-07-04 12:18   ` [PATCH] Align linkerscript symbols according to ABI Andreas Krebbel
2023-07-05  9:44     ` Nick Clifton
2023-07-05  9:53       ` Andreas Krebbel
2023-07-07  3:03         ` Alan Modra [this message]
2023-07-07  9:38           ` Andreas Krebbel
2023-07-12  1:36             ` Alan Modra

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