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Re: SEC_NEVER_LOAD cleanup
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 08:21:56AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> According to pe-coff specification NOLOAD means that a section has
> neither allocation nor the load flag set. For example .debug* or
> .metadata sections have this style described in pe-coff specification.
> They are part of the image without being mapped into process-memory on
> module load time, but have content and have image-file pointers.
http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/topics/COFF_SectHdrFlags.html disagrees.
STYP_NOLOAD 0x02 Noload section (allocated, relocated, not loaded)
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM