placing data into a section

[Daniel S. Wilkerson]

This is easy to do.  See how we do it in build-interceptor.tigris.org.

Basically, use objcopy --add-section.

Daniel

vamsi krishna wrote:

> Hello
>
> > > When I am linking an elf executable, I would like to place some bulk
> > > data (e.g. a zip file or some other binary file) into a section in the
> > > final executable. How can I achieve this with ld commands and the
> > > linker script?
>
> I suggest you need to add this as a SEGMENT not a SECTION, because in
> a executable the section header table can be stripped off. You may
> need some mechanism to add the bulk file as a PHDR PT_LOAD entry.
>
> Just more curious on how would you refer this in your code?
>
> Thank you,
> Vamsi kundeti