From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Joris van Rantwijk <jorispubl@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86_64
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:57:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DD5ABF.8030805@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080926215537.GA31124@xs4all.nl>
Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
>
> There is still the question whether linking vmlinux with -n (turn off
> file offset alignment) works on all architectures. I suspect not.
>
Almost certainly not, since it creates a noncompliant ELF file. For x86
it is probably safe, though, but it needs to be an arch option.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-26 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-26 12:42 Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86_64 Joris van Rantwijk
2008-09-26 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-26 19:50 ` Joris van Rantwijk
2008-09-26 20:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-26 21:55 ` Joris van Rantwijk
2008-09-26 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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