[Bug binutils/24942] objcopy: Add option for setting section alignment

[profclonk at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24942

--- Comment #8 from Niklas Gürtler <profclonk at gmail dot com> ---
I think not all BFD targets support arbitrary alignment, some may only support
powers of 2. The internal representation in the BFD library stores only the
exponent, so there would have to be a conversion (i.e. log2), with additional
potential for errors, so I think it's best to have the user do that and
document it properly. The ".align" directive also works this way (at least on
ARM).

When using --rename-section, the original section name would need to be
specified for --set-section-alignment, just like with --set-section-flags.

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