Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Elf loader crash while zero-filling .bss | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:14:38 +0100 |
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Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >> > Now, the question is whether it is valid for ELF binary to not have the end >> > of .bss section (if present at all) not page-aligned. >> Why wouldn't it be? It would, however, be valid to the kernel to round it up >> to the next boundary. > > I wasn't immediately sure if there is nothing in ELF specification that > would forbid that.
The only requirement for a loadable segment is that its address is congruent modulo alignment with the file offset.
Andreas.
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