So, I notice that all sparc (ELF) executables display a weird 64KB
gap between the end of the .text (or .rodata) segment and the start
of the .data segment. Below's an arbitrary example objdump.

I'm not aware of any reason this must be so. How can I fix it?

-pk

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .init         0000004c  000100ac  000100ac  000000ac  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .text         0000dcf0  000100f8  000100f8  000000f8  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  2 .fini         00000030  0001dde8  0001dde8  0000dde8  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  3 .rodata       00001835  0001de18  0001de18  0000de18  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  4 .data         00000f14  0002f650  0002f650  0000f650  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  5 .ctors        00000008  00030564  00030564  00010564  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  6 .dtors        00000008  0003056c  0003056c  0001056c  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  7 .got          00000044  00030574  00030574  00010574  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  8 .bss          00001ba8  000305b8  000305b8  000105b8  2**3
                  ALLOC
  9 .comment      0000127a  00000000  00000000  000105b8  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 10 .ident        00001082  0000127a  0000127a  00011832  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 11 .note.netbsd.ident 00000018  00010094  00010094  00000094  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA