[PATCH] ld: Clear SEC_ALLOC for NOLOAD notes sections

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 00:40:28 GMT 2025


On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:14:50PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> If a note section is marked as NOLOAD, clear the SEC_ALLOC so that it
> won't be treated as an SHF_ALLOC section, like a .bss section.

Perhaps we should instead make NOLOAD consistent over all targets?
That might not be possible, at least I thought so at the time I wrote
that "Unfortunately.." comment, but it is nasty that NOLOAD behaves
differently for ELF.

-- 
Alan Modra


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