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Re: Section attributes from ld


ian@cygnus.com writes:
 > >How does ld determine which attributes sections are to have? By
 > >attributes, I mean things like:-
 > 
 > >Contains code, contains initialised data, should be loaded with
 > >execute permission, should be loaded with read permission, should be
 > >loaded with write permission etc.
 > 
 > The attributes are based on the attributes of the input sections which
 > are mapped into the output sections.  Take a look at
 > gas/config/obj-coff.c to see how to use the .section directive in an
 > assembler file.

I will look at this. However...

My input sections (in the case where I'm having problems) all have
attribute MEM_READ, whereas the resulting link section doesn't. It
would appear that link is overriding this in some way.
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