On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:52 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry, I am still confused. Are you saying that something still needs to be > > fixed in the kernel code, and if so, why? To reiterate, the byteshift_table > > doesn't actually *need* any particular alignment. Would it avoid the confusion > > if I changed it to no alignment? Or is there some section merging related > > reason it actually needs to be 32? > > Looks like the section merging of similarly named sections of > differing alignment in LLD just got reverted: > https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42289#c8 And re-fixed in: https://reviews.llvm.org/rL365139 Seems like special care was needed for SHF_STRINGS. -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
