From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
fastboot@lists.osdl.org, Horms <horms@verge.net.au>,
Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:39:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45550D9F.5000108@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1irhnnb09.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-02 10:19 [PATCH 01/02] Elf: Always define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h Magnus Damm
2006-11-02 10:19 ` [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly Magnus Damm
2006-11-09 14:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-10 0:50 ` Horms
2006-11-10 4:00 ` Magnus Damm
2006-11-10 23:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-10 23:39 ` David Miller
2006-11-11 0:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-11 0:43 ` David Miller
2006-11-11 1:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-13 2:16 ` Magnus Damm
2006-11-13 3:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-13 0:23 ` Horms
2006-11-13 1:47 ` David Miller
2006-11-10 3:52 ` Magnus Damm
2006-11-10 5:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-10 6:53 ` Magnus Damm
2006-11-10 14:49 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-11-10 16:04 ` Dave Anderson
2006-11-10 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-10 23:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-11-02 10:43 ` [PATCH 01/02] Elf: Always define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h Jakub Jelinek
2006-11-02 10:51 ` Magnus Damm
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