[Bug gas/32435] [2.44 Regression] gas produces unaligned sections on arm-linux-gnueabihf for kernel build

[ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32435

--- Comment #12 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> I'm afraid there's no concept of "aligning" within the (object) file. Yet
> still I was thinking of exactly such (generally speaking wrong) assumptions,
> making me add the post-commit-message RFC remark in the original submission
> of the patch (see
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-October/137085.html).

Ouch.  What was the purpose of this change?  Changing such an old behavior for
no clear benefits beyond saving a few bytes looks rather questionable.  Was it
tested with non-GNU linkers in particular?

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