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Subject: Re: ld as a cross linker
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Date: 1 Sep 89 04:43:28 GMT
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Has anyone used ld as a cross linker where the host and target
machines have the same byte order, but the host machine has stricter
alignment requirements?

I have tried to do this with an hp9k800 as the host and an hp9k300 as
the target.  It appears that each relocatable chunk in the input is
aligned to a two-byte boundary. Either the input or the output ends up
not being word-aligned, and then ld dumps core trying to copy it.