PATCH: ld/2537: Linker doesn't allow sections reserved for applications.

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Apr 19 01:54:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:13:19PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:20:16AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:01:10AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > Here is the updated patch. If section reserved for applications has
> > > SHF_ALLOC, linker can't handle it properly.
> > 
> > I'm curious.  Why doesn't the linker do what you expect?
> 
> It is not what I expect. It is I don't know what applications will
> expect.

Why is this any different for non-SHF_ALLOC sections?

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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