linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly

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Message-ID: <45550D9F.5000108@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:39:11 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus@...inux.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, fastboot@...ts.osdl.org,
	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>, Dave Anderson <anderson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To verify your claim that 8 byte alignment is correct I checked the
> core dump code in fs/binfmt_elf.c in the linux kernel.  That always
> uses 4 byte alignment.  Therefore it appears clear that only doing
> 4 byte alignment is not a local misreading of the spec, and is used in
> other implementations.  If you can find an implementation that uses
> 8 byte alignment I am willing to consider it.
>   

I wrote the Elf core code, so I may be carrying the same misreading into
multiple places.  In my defence, I think I wrote that before there were
any 64-bit Linux ports (hm, Alpha might have been around).

    J
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