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commit f04caf86e9725926d51f20ad78ac65f7f045b115
Author: Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jan 6 13:56:43 2016 +0100

    [aot] Fix emission of external aot data by aligning tables in the file.
    
    The table reading code depends on data being aligned, so make sure it is.

diff --git a/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c b/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
index 3c803ae..4c7edd5 100644
--- a/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
+++ b/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
@@ -2335,6 +2335,11 @@ emit_aot_data (MonoAotCompile *acfg, MonoAotFileTable table, const char *symbol,
 		acfg->table_offsets [(int)table] = acfg->datafile_offset;
 		fwrite (data,1, size, acfg->data_outfile);
 		acfg->datafile_offset += size;
+		// align the data to 8 bytes. Put zeros in the file (so that every build results in consistent output).
+		int remained = 8 - size % 8;
+		acfg->datafile_offset += remained;
+		for (int i = 0; i < remained; i++)
+			fwrite ("", 1, 1, acfg->data_outfile);
 	} else if (acfg->llvm) {
 		mono_llvm_emit_aot_data (symbol, data, size);
 	} else {