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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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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