[Bug ld/12565] NOLOAD sections empty

[Doug Kwan (關振德)]

The ARM linux kernel also uses NOLOAD.  I added support for that in
gold to link the kernel.

-Doug

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> I have been looking at PR 12565, and I have to say that I do not
>> understand the linker's behaviour for NOLOAD sections on ELF based
>> targets.  What is the point of having a section that cannot be loaded
>> and that does not have any contents ?
>>
>> Also, as far as I can see, this behaviour is not documented
>> anywhere. Do you know of any applications that rely upon this feature
>> ?
>
> If you look in the libgloss linker scripts you will see a bunch of uses
> of NOLOAD.
>
> I'm not sure whether any of them are really necessary, but they are
> certainly there.
>
> Ian
>