[Bug gas/29145] GAS always generates padding instructions regardless of `--no-pad-sections`

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29145

--- Comment #3 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi lh_mouse,

>> Unfortunately this is required by the PE specification, so it cannot

> Would you please provide a link to this specification? I doubt whether it is
> necessary to keep a 16-byte aligned .text section in every object.

Here is a link:

   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format

Although I agree that I cannot find an actual requirement for 16-byte alignment
in that document.   I am not an expert on the PE format however, so the
requirement
may be in there, just hidden.

I would suggest that you ask about this on the cygwin mailing list as there
are many PE experts there:

   https://www.cygwin.com/lists.html

Cheers
   Nick

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