Landing: 787a99680e72

Project / Subsystem

binutils / risc-v/bfd

Date

2026-07-31

Author

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>

Commit

787a99680e72c076ad87b580f3de1a37b48598eb

Source

public_inbox

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

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binutils
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risc-v/bfd
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787a99680e72c076ad87b580f3de1a37b48598eb
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public_inbox
headline
Warn about non-power-of-2 stack-align attribute in RISC-V
tldr
RISC-V linker now warns about and ignores non-power-of-2 stack-align attributes.
author
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
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committed
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  • • RISC-V
  • • linker
  • • attribute
  • • alignment
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date
2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z

The RISC-V BFD linker now issues a warning and ignores stack_align attributes that are not a power of two. Alignment values must be powers of two to be meaningful. This change ensures that the linker handles invalid alignment attributes gracefully, preventing potential misconfigurations.