trylink: produce even more info about final link stage

trylink: explain how to modify link and drastically decrease amount
  of padding (unfortunately, needs hand editing ATM).
*: add ALIGN1 / ALIGN2 to global strings and arrays of bytes and shorts

size saving: 0.5k

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/archival/ar.c b/archival/ar.c
index e85ca5c6f..7b16c2b59 100644
--- a/archival/ar.c
+++ b/archival/ar.c
@@ -41,10 +41,11 @@ static void header_verbose_list_ar(const file_header_t *file_header)
 int ar_main(int argc, char **argv);
 int ar_main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+        static const char msg_unsupported_err[] ALIGN1 =
+                "archive %s is not supported";
+
         archive_handle_t *archive_handle;
         unsigned opt;
-        static const char msg_unsupported_err[] =
-                        "Archive %s not supported.  Install binutils 'ar'.";
         char magic[8];
 
         archive_handle = init_handle();
@@ -88,7 +89,8 @@ int ar_main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
         archive_handle->offset += 7;
 
-        while (get_header_ar(archive_handle) == EXIT_SUCCESS) /* repeat */;
+        while (get_header_ar(archive_handle) == EXIT_SUCCESS)
+                continue;
 
         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }