From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: "Vincent Rivière" <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gas section alignment less than 4 bytes
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 12:08:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5fe9e22-b899-19cd-11e4-55768e0b0f01@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abee4dee-c897-4107-9e78-4f7b4ebb8cce@freesbee.fr>
Hi Vincent,
> I wonder if there is a way for gas to generate an object with section alignment less than 4.
If you do not mind the section having a name other than .text, then sure:
$ cat fred.s
.section foo, "ax"
nop
$ m68k-elf-as fred.s -o fred.o
$ m68k-elf-objdump -h fred.o
[...]
3 foo 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> I would like to get Algn = 2**1 for all sections.
> Is it possible to achieve that? How?
If you want to change the alignment of all of the sections, then
you cannot do it using gas, but you can using objcopy:
$ echo nop | m68k-elf-as -o a.o
$ mk68k-elf-objcopy --set-section-alignment=\*=2 a.o b.o
$ m68k-elf-objdump -h b.o
[...]
0 .text 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**1
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
1 .data 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000036 2**1
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
2 .bss 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000036 2**1
ALLOC
Cheers
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-04 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-03 20:56 Vincent Rivière
2023-07-03 21:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-04 11:08 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
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