From: james.harris.1@gmail.com   
      
   On 08/02/2022 02:10, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:   
   > On Monday, February 7, 2022 at 5:44:40 AM UTC-8, James Harris wrote:   
      
   ...   
      
   >> As I looked in to it I was becoming increasingly uncertain that PE could   
   >> be made to do what I wanted. For example, for my environment the linker   
   >> expects sections to be loaded into memory at 4k alignment but they have   
   >> smaller alignment in the file.   
   >   
   > There are two alignment fields in the PE header: section alignment   
   > and file alignment. If you set both to 4KB (there should be an option   
   > or a way to do it via the linker script), you'll probably just get   
   > what you need.   
      
   Good point. It turns out that ld even includes switches for   
   --file-alignment and --section-alignment.   
      
   >   
   >> I needed the executable to run from   
   >> wherever the file happened to be loaded. It /may/ have been relocatable   
   >> as it stood but I couldn't be sure and thought maybe I was trying to get   
   >> the format to do something it was not designed for.   
   >   
   > My guess is you wanted it look like a flat binary, which is missing the point   
   > of the format and the format isn't terribly complex for what you really   
   > need at this point.   
      
   It may have been possible to get PE to do what I wanted but there were   
   certainly incompatibilities between my mental model and what PE was   
   designed for.   
      
   By contrast there were some things about it that were better than what I   
   had in mind. For example, its dividing patch lists up into the pages for   
   which they list the fixups. (Though I am not sure what is supposed to   
   happen when the bytes to be fixed up cross a page boundary.)   
      
      
      
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   James Harris   
      
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