section alignment problem (visual c++)

[mordak]

hi!
i develop my kernel and now want to enable pagin for it.when i set section alignment
from 512 to 4096 size of kernel reduce from 9kb to 5kb and when browse it with hex editor its not page aligned and aligned as 1024

[mordak]

hi!
this answer that i found hopeful to useful
in visual stdio section alignment effect file alignment.
i quote its from [url]thishttp://www.catch22.net/tuts/reducing-executable-size[/url]

/Align
Specifies the alignment of each section in the executable, when it is mapped into memory. Has no relation to file-alignment (above), but an apparent bug in visual studio causes this option to also effect file-section alignment, as well as the intended image-section alignment, under certain circumstances

in this state you must set FileAlignment with Undocumented linker options

/FILEALIGN
Undocumented (VC 6 only). Specified the alignment of each section in the executable, as it is stored on disk

its work for me.

[JAAman]

what do you mean its undocumented?

the official visual studio reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 10%29.aspx


and seriously, quoting a document that considers VC6 to be the latest...even VC6's replacement's replacement's replacement has been replaced by now