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Re: NOLOAD attribute
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 14 Mar 2006 14:55:45 -0800
- Subject: Re: NOLOAD attribute
- References: <4416DE48.7060908@codesourcery.com>
Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Whet exactly should be the behaviour of the NOLOAD section attribute
> in a linker script?
I don't think anybody really knows.
The original meaning was that it set the STYP_NOLOAD bit for a COFF
section. What that means in the ELF world is anybody's guess.
Ian