One place where this seems to matter is to make sure the .rsrc section comes
after .text. The Win32 UpdateResource() function can change the contents of
.rsrc. It will move the sections that come after, but if .text gets moved, the
entry point header will not get updated and the executable breaks. This was
found by a test in Chromium.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45260
llvm-svn: 329221
These are emitted for comm symbols in object files, when targeting
a GNU environment.
Alternatively, just ignore them since we already align CommonChunk
to the natural size of the content (up to 32 bytes). That would only
trade away the possibility to overalign small symbols, which doesn't
sound like something that might not need to be handled?
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36304
llvm-svn: 310871
Fangrui Song