Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:57:19 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86_64 |
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Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > > There is still the question whether linking vmlinux with -n (turn off > file offset alignment) works on all architectures. I suspect not. >
Almost certainly not, since it creates a noncompliant ELF file. For x86 it is probably safe, though, but it needs to be an arch option.
-hpa
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