file alignment of elf sections

file alignment of elf sections

[Felix Domke]

hi,

i'm currently porting u-boot to a ppc405-based board, but i'm failing
miserably at the first step - correct linking.

to make it short (and keep it a bit ontopic, sorry):

how can i tell ld to align the section in the FILE to 2^16 ? i have my
.text-section started at (loading address) 5MB, and like to have it in
the elf-file at 64k.  i saw lds producing exactly this output, but in my
case the .text-section starts immediately after the elf header.  (the
reason is that i have to convert the binary to a special format for the
primary bootloader, and the tool for converting is rather dumb, but i
don't want to invest time into fixing the tool since i didn't wrote it
and nobody else cares about it).

There must be a simple option, but i can't find it :/  (even after
googling around)

I have to admit that i did this before, but i can't remember HOW i did it.

felix


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