I am not sure if it is worth the change since a special note section,
.note.GNU-stack, is used to specify the stack flags. Moving it to
the .gnu.attributes section will require changes in gcc, binutils
and applications. We have to keep .note.GNU-stack because of it. We
can add new ones to .gnu.attributes, but should leave the stack flags
alone.
bfd/
2007-08-15 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* elf.c (get_segment_type): Change PT_GNU_STACK to PT_GNU_ATTR.
(bfd_section_from_phdr): Likewise.
(get_program_header_size): Likewise. Add a PT_GNU_ATTR segment
if there is an attribute section.
(_bfd_elf_map_sections_to_segments): Likewise.
(IS_SECTION_IN_INPUT_SEGMENT): Likewise.
binutils/
2007-08-15 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* readelf.c (get_segment_type): Change PT_GNU_STACK to
PT_GNU_ATTR.
include/elf/
2007-08-15 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* common.h (PT_GNU_STACK): Renamed to ...
(PT_GNU_ATTR): This.
(PT_GNU_STACK): New. Make an alias of PT_GNU_ATTR.