Hi Eric,
>> This isn't necessary on Solaris 11.4, and Solaris 11.3/x86 isn't
>> affected as well. I'm still determining what the best course of action
>> is: disable string merging support before Solaris 11.4 or enable the
>> workaround above instead.
>
> Out of curiosity, why isn't it necessary on Solaris 11.4? Is string
> compression disabled or does it respect alignment on Solaris 11.4?
it's not disabled (I had to disable it when testing an a /bin/as version
with full SHF_MERGE/SHF_STRINGS suppurt recently), so I suspect the
latter. In S11.4 .rodata and .rodata.str1.8 are merged, with the
alignment of the larger of the two on the output section.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
