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

[glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin.de]

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

--- Comment #13 from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot 
fu-berlin.de> ---
(In reply to Eric Botcazou from comment #12)
> > 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?

I guess the problem with such changes is that you really need to test them on
all supported targets to ensure no such breakage occurs.

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