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Re: PATCH: ld/2537: Linker doesn't allow sections reserved for applications.
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:03:39AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:13:19PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:20:16AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:01:10AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > Here is the updated patch. If section reserved for applications has
> > > > SHF_ALLOC, linker can't handle it properly.
> > >
> > > I'm curious. Why doesn't the linker do what you expect?
> >
> > It is not what I expect. It is I don't know what applications will
> > expect.
>
> Why is this any different for non-SHF_ALLOC sections?
non-SHF_ALLOC sections won't be the parts of image. We don't need to
put them in segments. We can leave them as is without changing the
final image.
H.J.