[uClibc] Re: 0x10000 PT_LOAD Segment alignment on MIPS makes my ELF files 64 kb big

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Mon Feb 7 18:47:20 UTC 2005


On Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 01:31:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 07 February 2005 01:28 pm, TINNES Julien RD-MAPS-ISS wrote:
> > I don't understand why he says
> > it's to shrink the ELF file and not for general use.
> 
> the reason it's not for general use should be pretty obvious ... it breaks ABI

Well, that and using such a patched binutils on a mips system
where the kernel is build using CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB would be
a bad idea.

 -Erik

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