Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/xen.lds.S: Work around binutils build id alignment bug

[Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 11:04 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> Personally I think this kind of a workaround patch is something
> distros ought to be fine to carry, if they care about the
> functionality and only until they get around to upgrade their
> binutils. But I'll be happy to hear differing opinions.

Y'all just merged something to support building with make 3.81, released in 
*2006*, so why require a bleeding edge binutils to work with the executable 
image?

> I also don't see any mention anywhere of why it's 32 bytes, and not
> 16 or 64 or yet something else.

It is 32 because you said 32 was probably fine.

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Trammell