From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757491AbZE0VKe (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 17:10:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756203AbZE0VK1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 17:10:27 -0400 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:47548 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754945AbZE0VK1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 17:10:27 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: uclinux-dev@uclinux.org Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH] FLAT: make sure data section is aligned at 32 bytes Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:10:26 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29.2; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Jie Zhang References: <1243411102-24630-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1243411102-24630-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905271710.28330.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 27 May 2009 03:58:22 Mike Frysinger wrote: > From: Jie Zhang > > If a structure in the data section attempts to force a larger alignment, > the FLAT loader will break this when working with shared flat libraries > by inserting a few words before the data section. i guess ignore this due to the resurrected "flat: fix data sections alignment" thread. once that gets merged, we'll recheck the need for this patch. -mike