Purpose of .note.GNU-stack

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:35 PM Peng Yu via Binutils
<binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
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> What does the Off 0000ab mean? Thanks.

Nothing, really.  It's the offset of the section contents in the file,
but since the section size is 0 it doesn't make any difference.

Ian


> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:47 PM Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 21 Apr 2021 14:52, Peng Yu via Binutils wrote:
> > > I see that there is nothing in .note.GNU-stack. What is
> > > .note.GNU-stack supposed to do if there is nothing in it?
> >
> > the section flags matter, not the section contents
> > -mike
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> --
> Regards,
> Peng