[PATCH] ARM: Add support for SHF_ARM_NOREAD section flag

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Andre,

> Terry sent a patch upstream to handle the noread attribute in 2014:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-04/msg00181.html
>
> Having seen this patch I believe the approach taken here to use section
> names to represent the noread attribute in assembly is inferior to
> Terry's approach.
>
> For the GCC implementation of either an attribute or compile option for
> execute-only we should not use section names to represent the noread
> attribute, since for instance that means it can not be combined with
> -ffunction-sections, or any other option that sets section names for
> functions.
>
> I would like to rebase Terry's patch and make the necessary changes to
> it, slightly different attribute name and so on, and use that instead of
> this patch.
>
> Would there be any objections to this?

No - provided that Terry is happy to have the patch rebased then please 
feel free to submit it.

Cheers
   Nick