#161 ELF: Allow overriding parameters on the standard sections

[Igor]

NASM v 2.02 on FreeBSD 7.0 produces incorrectly aligned ELF output. When I say "section .text align=32" and watch output file by "readelf -S" I see .text section having alignment 32; when I say "section .data align = 32" or "section .bss align=32" I see both .data and .bss sections having alignment 4. When I use section names .data1 and .bss1, NASM sets their alignments precisely as I say it in the source.

[H. Peter Anvin]

NASM doesn't let you set the attributes of the standard section names. This is a long-standing bug in the ELF backend.

[Anonymous]

It may have been true at one time that alignment could not be specified by the user for standard section names, but I have just tested both ELF32 and ELF64, and they both worked properly -- at least with Linux. However, the parsing is overly strict. "align=32" works, but "align =32" and "align= 32" both fail silently.

It is also possible that the FreeBSD linker has its own ideas about what the section alignment should be, and I would like to know if the "readelf -S" command was run against the object file, or the executable file.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Perhaps the Original Poster can try 2.06rc2 and see if the problem persists?