weirdly large filesize of winegcc generated shared object

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Pengyu CHEN <cpy.prefers.you at gmail.com> wrote:

> > PE header needs to be aligned in a 64k boundary, and compiler fills
> > remaining space with zeros.
> 
> Thank you Dmitry, and now I'm clear with that.
> Yet another question here. I've just check the msdn page and found 64K is
> actually the maximum possible value of SectionAlignment and FileAlignment,
> then why must we choose the maximum one or it is just like this?

PE header marks the beginning of a PE module in memory, and it needs to be
aligned on allocation granularity.

-- 
Dmitry.