[Bug binutils/24942] objcopy: Add option for setting section alignment

[profclonk at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24942

--- Comment #2 from Niklas Gürtler <profclonk at gmail dot com> ---
Hi Nick,

I knew about "incbin" but needing an (additional) assembly file seems somewhat
clunky. There are even more possibilities: Putting each converted .o file into
its own section, and aligning those sections via the final linker script.
Hacking together a tool that modifies the alignment field in the ELF header. It
might even be possible to do a partial linking step to set the alignment of a
objcopy-produced .o-file using a linker script.

However, if objcopy is capable of converting binary to ELF, then why not make
it actually useful by setting the alignment requirement, especially since it's
a rather simple fix? This would allow us to produce the desired .o file with
one simple step.

Greetings,
Niklas

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