Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:39:11 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > To verify your claim that 8 byte alignment is correct I checked the > core dump code in fs/binfmt_elf.c in the linux kernel. That always > uses 4 byte alignment. Therefore it appears clear that only doing > 4 byte alignment is not a local misreading of the spec, and is used in > other implementations. If you can find an implementation that uses > 8 byte alignment I am willing to consider it. >
I wrote the Elf core code, so I may be carrying the same misreading into multiple places. In my defence, I think I wrote that before there were any 64-bit Linux ports (hm, Alpha might have been around).
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