Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> > OK deraadt, but now that it's serious kettenis may have other nits.
> > The conditions look correct to me and I don't think anything outside
> > sys/arch/sparc64/stand uses the ld options which use this so the effects
> > are tightly constrained.
> 
> I have a feeling that this is trying to work around an issue that can
> be fixed by passing the right command line arguments and/or a fairly
> simple linker script.  Please let me see if I can figure that out
> before committing this.

In the old days, did nmagic binaries really do 1MB padding?
I doubt it.  So it seems like an oversight.