NOLOAD attribute

Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Tue Mar 14 22:55:00 GMT 2006


Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Whet exactly should be the behaviour of the NOLOAD section attribute
> in a linker script?

I don't think anybody really knows.

The original meaning was that it set the STYP_NOLOAD bit for a COFF
section.  What that means in the ELF world is anybody's guess.

Ian



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