binutils 2.14a 32-bit ARM PE/COFF as section flags

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Paul,

> I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I did wrong
> in my manual configuration or other mods, and I know
> that binutils 2.14a is long out of support, 

Wow - OK, 2.14 is very very old.

 > but I thought I would document it just for the record.

Thank you.

> "as" doesn't seem to set the section flags properly
> on object code properly, e.g. DATA is not being marked
> as DATA, possibly because it is not, or may not be,
> exclusively data, from the assembler's perpective.

Do you have a test case that demonstrates this ?

I would like to think that this is a fixed bug, but it
would be good to be able to check and make sure.

Cheers
   Nick