Bug 24554

Summary:	[objcopy] --rename-section marking section NOBITS
Product:	binutils	Reporter:	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Not yet assigned to anyone <unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	amodra
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
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Description Nick Desaulniers 2019-05-14 20:21:40 UTC

via this thread from LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/14/668

it seems that use of the flag `--rename-section .text=.rodata,alloc,readonly` marks the resulting section as type NOBITS (PROGBITS was expected).

Is there an additional flag that we should be using, or is this considered a bug?

Comment 1 Alan Modra 2019-05-15 07:37:23 UTC

Yes, you should be using other flags.  Hint: use objdump to look at flags for .rodata on an object file that hasn't been munged by objcopy.

Comment 2 Nick Desaulniers 2019-05-15 18:16:41 UTC

For future travelers, it seems that the "load" flag was required:

`--rename-section .text=.rodata,alloc,readonly,load`

Thanks for the tip.