RFC Adding a section group flag of 0

Rui Ueyama via binutils binutils@sourceware.org
Wed Jan 9 21:28:00 GMT 2019


After carefully reading the page (*), I also found that the value 0 can be
interpreted as an absence of any flag and has no semantics other than
defining a group, which would probably means that they should be discarded
or retained as a group when GC runs. But I don't think it is very clear; we
probably should add a clarifying statement to the spec.

*
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19120-01/open.solaris/819-0690/chapter7-26/index.html

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:11 AM Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > The problem is that this does not make it clear whether a value
> > > of zero is allowed or an error.
> >
> > Why would the absence of flag 0 be different from the absence of any
> > other flag?
>
> I'm OK with adding a clarifying statement to the spec.
>
> -cary
>



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