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Re: LD: Output section SPECIAL attribute?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:38:21 +1030
- Subject: Re: LD: Output section SPECIAL attribute?
- References: <4D412151.1040004@embedded-brains.de>
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:40:01AM +0100, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the PowerPC default linker command file you find for example this:
>
> .got : SPECIAL { *(.got) }
>
> What is the meaning of the SPECIAL output section attribute? It is not in the
> documentation.
It isn't documented because it isn't for general use. See
ld/emultempl/ppc32elf.em:ppc_after_open.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM