RFC: Add SHT_GNU_PHDRS

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 27.09.18 at 07:01, <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> * H. J. Lu:
> 
>> I am proposing
>>
>> #define SHT_GNU_PHDRS  0x6ffffff4  /* Dummy section for program header */
>>
>> This is a special read-only SHF_ALLOC zero-size data section.  It is the
>> first output section, which will force a data PT_LOAD segment with program
>> header before the code-only PT_LOAD segment,
> 
> Is it actually a requirement in the ELF specification that all bits
> loaded via segments are covered by sections as well?

Hardly, because the presence of a section table isn't required
in the first place in an executable (iirc).

Jan