Re: Inflation of vmlinux by linker on x86_64

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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