your SHF_GNU_RETAIN addition from over 4 years back

[Jan Beulich]

(retrying with a different email address)

Josef,

I'm struggling with the elf/section23b testcase in combination with the
use (or not) of ELFOSABI_STANDALONE.

First: Why does obj_elf_parse_section_letters() check for that ABI, when
the checking at the bottom of obj_elf_section() and the logic in
_bfd_elf_final_write_processing() don't? Either STANDALONE is meant to
be GNU-ish, or it is not, I would think.

Second: Assuming it's not GNU-ish, what does the testcase actually mean
to check? The numeric attribute value 0x200000 has an entirely unknown
(or more precisely, OS-defined, which we may or may not know of)
meaning on non-GNU-ish targets, so ought to be accepted? Hence that
testcase simply seems wrong to me, and thus wants removing. (If it was
GNU-ish, the other testcase, elf/section23a, would want running for
those targets as well, and the testcase in question would still want
purging.)

Thanks in advance for any helpful insights,
Jan