Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946783AbWKJXjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:39:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946824AbWKJXjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:39:15 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:6355 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946783AbWKJXjO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:39:14 -0500 Message-ID: <45550D9F.5000108@goop.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:39:11 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Magnus Damm , Magnus Damm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vivek Goyal , Andi Kleen , fastboot@lists.osdl.org, Horms , Dave Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly References: <20061102101942.452.73192.sendpatchset@localhost> <20061102101949.452.23441.sendpatchset@localhost> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 19 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/