On Fri, 13 May 2005, John Carter wrote:
As far as I can see, there are two sources for this discrepancy... 1) Alignment. (1 byte symbol followed by a 4 byte aligned symbol) 2) Some large mysterious other thing between the last symbol and the end of the rodata segment..
Question 1) Any ld flags / linking script options / ... that I can use to pack all byte aligned objects together?
I hate answering my own questions... but I finally found in the change log for the absolutely latest and greatest version of binutils (2.16)
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/ld/NEWS?rev=1.58&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=binutils-2_16
Added SORT_BY_NAME and SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by section name or section maximum alignment.
I am still looking for an answer to this one though...
Question 2) Any guesses as to what are the mystery rodata items that are not showing up in objdump --syms?
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