[PATCH] ld: Clear SEC_ALLOC for NOLOAD notes sections

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Can we make the exception only for .bss sections, like

     if (bfd_get_flavour (link_info.output_bfd) == bfd_target_elf_flavour
          && startswith (section->name, ".bss"))
        flags &= ~SEC_HAS_CONTENTS;
      else
        flags &= ~SEC_ALLOC;


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> Alan Modra



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H.J.