elf section type & objcopy

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jan 29 10:45:00 GMT 2010


Hi Nathan,

> The attached flag also sets SEC_LINKER_CREATED to force checking the
> section name and restores the original behaviour.

> Am I heading in the right direction?

Definitely.  It seems slightly counter-intuitive to say that a section 
requested by the user is "linker created", so it would be worth adding a 
comment to the code explaining why the flag is used.  But apart from 
that your solution seems fine to me.

Cheers
   Nick




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