[PATCH v12 13/25] OAv2 merge: create a section for object attributes

[Jan Beulich]

On 16.01.2026 19:59, Matthieu Longo wrote:
> bfd copies object attributes to the output BFD only if the input BFD —
> used to store the merge result— contains an object attribute section.
> bfd_linear_find_first_with_obj_attrs() returns an input BFD that may or
> may not already include such a section.  If no object attributes section
> is found, the merge process must create one.
> 
> This patch implements create_object_attributes_section(), which constructs
> the missing section with the appropriate flags, type, and alignment.  The
> implementation is adapted from _bfd_elf_link_create_gnu_property_sec() in
> bfd/elf-properties.c.  The code preserves the different alignment
> requirements for 32-bit and 64-bit ELF formats, although the rationale for
> this distinction remains unclear in the original source and patch history.

Okay.

Jan