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On 2011-06-24T19:29:40+00:00 Dave Martin wrote:

Whenever an instruction is assembled, gas should increase the alignment
of the output section.

Currently the output section alignment is often left untouched, which
may result in invalid alignment when sections are merged at link-time.

This appears to be responsible for a faulty WebM codec behaviour when
firefox-5 is built in Thumb, as a result of ARM code being linked into
.text alongside Thumb code.  The ARM instructions are placed at halfword
alignment and so can't be executed correctly.

I don't know if this is a recent regression or an older bug.

It appears present in trunk as of 2011-06-24.
The bug is also present in linaro binutils 2.21.0.20110327-2ubuntu2cross1.62


In both of the cases below, the .text section alignment should not be 2**0.  
The alignment should probably be set to 2**2 (though it could in principle be 
2**1 for some Thumb code, some Thumb instructions are alignment-sensitive 
modulo 1 word; the 16-bit PC-relative add and ldr instructions have this 
restriction).

$ cat <<EOF >tst-align.s
.type f, %function
.globl f
f:      nop
EOF

$ arm-linux-gnueabi-as -o tst-align.o tst-align.s
$ arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump -hd tst-align.o

tst-align.o:     file format elf32-littlearm

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00000004  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .data         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000038  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          00000000  00000000  00000000  00000038  2**0
                  ALLOC
  3 .ARM.attributes 00000016  00000000  00000000  00000038  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY

Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <f>:
   0:   e1a00000        nop                     ; (mov r0, r0)
$ arm-linux-gnueabi-as mthumb  
$ arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump -hd tst-align.o

tst-align.o:     file format elf32-littlearm

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         00000002  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .data         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000036  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          00000000  00000000  00000000  00000036  2**0
                  ALLOC
  3 .ARM.attributes 00000016  00000000  00000000  00000036  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY

Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <f>:
   0:   46c0            nop                     ; (mov r8, r8)

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/binutils/+bug/789198/comments/18

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On 2011-06-24T19:30:19+00:00 Dave Martin wrote:

For details of the Firefox/WebM bug, see:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/789198

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/binutils/+bug/789198/comments/19


** Changed in: binutils
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: binutils
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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