Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port))

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:51:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> You may want to use 4 byte alignment too.  It's a good thing to align
> 32-bit addresses in the ELF headers.

Ok, but we aren't doing it on i386-pc, and this never caused trouble.  The
ELF headers in our modules are only loaded by GRUB itself, and if our
loader can cope with unaligned addresses, why bother trying to align
them?

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