Re: binutils 2.9.5.0.7 is released.

[Etienne Lorrain <etienne.lorrain@ibm.net>]

  Hello H.J.,

> This is the beta release of binutils 2.9.5.0.7 for Linux, which is
> based on binutils 1999 0813 plus various changes. It is purely for
> Linux, although it has been tested on Solaris/Sparc and Solaris/x86
> from time to time.
>
> I am planning to make the public release soon. Please test it as much
> as you can.
>
> Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.9.5.0.7 to hjl@lucon.org.

  I noticed a feature with my software (gujin) on the linker side.
 This exists on RH 6 version of binutils and your lattest snapshot,
 but was not present on standart RH 5 distributions (early binutils-2.9.1).

  Simply, it is a gap of 0x10 bytes out of sections, i.e. in between
 .code and .data - and it seems to be unvolumtary (i.e. no alignment
 needed because it is already aligned).

  Here is the linker command file:
>>>>>>>> boot.lnk
SECTIONS {
        .text : {
                boot.o(.text) *(.text) *(.rodata)
                . = ALIGN (16) ;
                _end = .;
                } = 0
        .data : {
                *(.data) *(.bss) *(COMMON)
                . = ALIGN (4);
                _edata = .;
                . = 112*512-SIZEOF(.text);
                } = 0
        }
<<<<<<<<

  I was assuming that ".data" start just after ".text", mostly because
 I have aligned "_end", so the calculus to fill the resulting binary 
 file to a size of 112*512.

  The .map file contains:
>>>>>>>>
.rodata        0x000094e0      0x4f0 user.o
               0x000099d0                .=ALIGN(0x10)
               0x000099d0                _end=.

.data          0x000099e0     0x4630
 *(.data)
<<<<<<<<

  i.e. there is a gap of 0x000099e0-0x000099d0 = 0x10 out of any section.

 I can modify my software without any problem, but this seems mostly
 strange so I think I had to report it (I am also doing full checksum
 calculus and things like that).

 If needed, I can provide the complete .tar.gz to reproduce it 
 easily on RH6/egcs-1.1.2/binutils-2.9.5.0.7, or soon on RH6/gcc-2.95,
 but it is ~100Kb so not on the list.

  Thanks,
  Etienne.