[Bug binutils/22444] Incorrect note padding check

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22444

--- Comment #7 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Andreas Schwab from comment #6)
> But you won't get xword alignment only by aligning the sizes of the name and
> data fields, you also need to insert padding before the name field.

Since name is a string, we don't need to align name.  We only need to
pad name to align the note descriptor.  Lucky for us, "GNU" is 4 bytes.
So there are 4 words (2 xwords) before the note descriptor.  We don't
need to pad name in GNU notes.

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