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Re: Help with linker script to relocate a .note section
- From: Tim Rightnour <root at garbled dot net>
- To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, amodra at bigpond dot net dot au
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:13:07 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: Re: Help with linker script to relocate a .note section
On 07-Jan-2008 Paul Koning wrote:
> Having the ability to put NOTE sections up front is useful because
> they can then be used to put markers in the image that are seen when
> it is loaded. That's what I needed to do. In the end I ended up
> creating a custom tool to create the NOTE section directly, rather
> than relying on compiler/linker to do it.
Right, and thats exactly what I'm trying to do here. I was really hoping I
could lay the binary out the way I wanted to with ld, rather than having to
write a program to mangle the finished binary for me.
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