------- Comment #4 from andi-gcc at firstfloor dot org 2010-07-19 19:46 ------- This is actually what I tried first, but it turned out to be quite complicated, had to change a lot of code and my patch was growing and growing and it didn't fit clearly with the different readers etc.
That is why I ended up with the post fixes instead which is much simpler and isolated in a single part of the reader. I don't understand the comment about section lengths? There's no dependency on section lengths being a multiple of 4 -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44992