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Re: ELF64 note sections
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:07:18PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > However, include/elf/external.h just defines:
> > /* Note segments */
> >
> > typedef struct {
> > unsigned char namesz[4]; /* Size of entry's owner string */
> > unsigned char descsz[4]; /* Size of the note descriptor */
> > unsigned char type[4]; /* Interpretation of the descriptor */
> > char name[1]; /* Start of the name+desc data */
> > } Elf_External_Note;
> That struct is bogus. BFD code assumes that sizeof (Elf_External_Note)
> is 13, but I've encountered at least one ABI which pads it up to 16
> bytes.
It should be easy enough to add __attribute__((packed)).
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>