http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12565
--- Comment #10 from iant at google dot com 2011-06-30 16:39:39 UTC --- Nick Clifton <ni...@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 -- 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
