On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Biggers <ebigg...@kernel.org> wrote: > Sorry, I am still confused. Are you saying that something still needs to be > fixed in the kernel code, and if so, why? To reiterate, the byteshift_table > doesn't actually *need* any particular alignment. Would it avoid the > confusion > if I changed it to no alignment? Or is there some section merging related > reason it actually needs to be 32?
Looks like the section merging of similarly named sections of differing alignment in LLD just got reverted: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42289#c8 I wasn't able to find any documentation that said alignment must match entity size, but if there's not a functional reason for them to differ then it seems like LLD need not even support such a particularly non-common case. -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
