Re: Specifying Segment Attributes

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Prasad,

> location also have a shared memory. The loader needs to recognize this
> shared segment in the elf-executable. From the elf specification and the
> linker script command language, I realized that one of the ways of
> specifying the segment attribute as 'shared' is to use the 'PHDRS' command
> and specify the attribute as part of the 'flags' of that segment.
>
> Is there any other way as the use of PHDRS command will force one to
> describe all segments ?

How about using memory regions ?  If you decide that the shared memory 
will always start at a specific, high address you could create a MEMORY 
region to describe this, and then assign any sections in the input files 
that need to go into shared memory to this region.

Cheers
  Nick