[Bug ld/702] New: mipsel a.out always more than 64 kbyte

[klaas dot de dot waal at philips dot com]

A small "hello world" program gives an executable of more than 64 kbyte when
linked with shared libraries. With binutils-2.14 the same "hello world" program
gives an executable of about 6 kbyte. 
Looking at the result of the following command:
readelf -a a.out | grep LOAD
shows that the LOAD entries in Program Headers now have an alignment of 0x10000
(64 kbyte)
The same command on an a.out generated with binutils-2.14 shows alignment of
0x1000 (4 kbyte)
The bintutils-2.14.91 also generates big a.out with alignment of 64 kbyte.
This suggests that the alignment value correlates with the a.out size.

Curious: on a.out binaries of X86 the alignment is 0x1000 but the executable
size is less than 4 kbyte (with binutils-2.15, as found on FC3).

For mipsel cross-compilation, I use a cross-compilation toolchain generated with
Dan Kegel's crosstools with the following parameters:
- crosstools-0.38-rc37
- gcc-3.3.3
- glibc-2.3.2
- binutils-2.14, 2.14.91 or 2.15
- linux-2.4.18

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           Summary: mipsel a.out always more than 64 kbyte
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: klaas dot de dot waal at philips dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i686-linux
GCC target triplet: mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=702

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