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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:13:00 -0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: <amodra@bigpond.net.au>,<nickc@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ELF: make .struct interact with .previous
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>You are assuming .short will be aligned at 2. The example in document
>has
>
>            .struct 0
>     field1:
>             .struct field1 + 4
>     field2:
>             .struct field2 + 4
>     field3:

This usage seems ill to me anyway (and it kills what the test tests for - t=
he use of .previous). Yes, I assume .short is (at most) 2-byte aligned; if =
that's too little, it could be further bumped.

Jan