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Re: [Bug ld/12565] NOLOAD sections empty
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "hjl.tools at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:07:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: [Bug ld/12565] NOLOAD sections empty
- References: <bug-12565-70@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> <bug-12565-70-H4yGNZZKA2@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> <4E0C8A37.5090604@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> I have been looking at PR 12565, and I have to say that I do not
> understand the linker's behaviour for NOLOAD sections on ELF based
> targets. What is the point of having a section that cannot be loaded
> and that does not have any contents ?
>
> Also, as far as I can see, this behaviour is not documented
> anywhere. Do you know of any applications that rely upon this feature
> ?
If you look in the libgloss linker scripts you will see a bunch of uses
of NOLOAD.
I'm not sure whether any of them are really necessary, but they are
certainly there.
Ian