Hi,

Against development versions of gcc/binutils elflint gives some
complaints like:

section [24] '.tm_clone_table': alloc flag set but section not in any
loaded segment

This is because that section's size is zero. So it is somewhat
reasonable IMHO that the linker doesn't put it in any segment.

Is the following patch to elflint OK?

Thanks,

Mark
commit e4b786145aac6de17b84c77ddf2db40629cca9ee
Author: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Apr 26 11:45:47 2012 +0200

    elflint: Don't check zero sized sections are loaded in any segment.

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index cae5e6b..6252686 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-04-26  Mark Wielaard  <[email protected]>
+
+	* elflint (check_sections): Don't check zero sized sections are
+	loaded in any segment.
+
 2012-04-24  Mark Wielaard  <[email protected]>
 
 	* readelf.c (print_ops): Add DW_OP_GNU_push_tls_address,
diff --git a/src/elflint.c b/src/elflint.c
index a03caac..09daef7 100644
--- a/src/elflint.c
+++ b/src/elflint.c
@@ -3701,7 +3701,8 @@ section [%2zu] '%s' is both executable and writable\n"),
 		   cnt, section_name (ebl, cnt));
 	}
 
-      if (ehdr->e_type != ET_REL && (shdr->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) != 0)
+      if (ehdr->e_type != ET_REL && (shdr->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) != 0
+	  && shdr->sh_size != 0)
 	{
 	  /* Make sure the section is contained in a loaded segment
 	     and that the initialization part matches NOBITS sections.  */
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