http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12565
--- Comment #7 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> 2011-06-30 14:47:49 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > Hi H.J., Hi Alan, > > 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 ? > NOLOAD means "don't load into memory", which maps to NOBITS. Otherwise, it will be loaded into memory. -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
