RFC Adding a section group flag of 0

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Wed Jan 9 15:14:00 GMT 2019


On Jan 09 2019, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

>   Currently the ELF standard for section groups requires that the first word 
>   of data in the group section be a flag, with only certain values recognised:
>
>     The following flags are currently defined:
>     Figure 4-13: Section Group Flags
>
>     Name 		Value
>     GRP_COMDAT 		0x1
>     GRP_MASKOS 		0x0ff00000
>     GRP_MASKPROC 	0xf0000000
>
>     [...]
>
>   I would like to propose adding a new value to this list.  A value of 0.

The value of 0 just means the absence of flags, doesn't it?

Andreas.

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