On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:52 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulni...@google.com> wrote:
>
> 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

And re-fixed in:
https://reviews.llvm.org/rL365139
Seems like special care was needed for SHF_STRINGS.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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