Re: turn off section padding

[nick clifton]

Hi Peter,

> It sees that as likes to pad sections so that they're multiples of 32 bytes.

Actually I think that the alignment is 16 bytes rather than 32 bytes, 
but anyway...

> Is there a way to avoid this??

  Two possible alternatives:

   1.  Configure your binutils for an ELF target, not linux or 
something else.  eg:  "mipsisa32-elf".

   2.  Do not use the ,text, .data and .bss section names.  Instead use 
some other names (eg .text.noalign) and then have the linker script map 
these sections onto the appropriate .text. .data or .bss section at link 
time.


FYI.  The reason for this behaviour is described in the source code. 
See gas/config/tc-mips.c:md_begin().

Cheers
  Nick