modification section attributes in .elf

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:49:59AM +1000, Tehn Yit Chin wrote:
> Is there another way of changing the section attribute either via gcc,
> gas or ld so that I don't have modify the attribute using objcopy?

You can start out with the correct section attributes using something
like

 .section .boot_identifier,"a",@progbits

in an assembly file.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM