ld & tables spread accross multiple objects

[Shaun Jackman]

Is it possible to specify that all data contained in a specific section 
(".conftab" in my case) *must* be written to the executable?

[snippet from my link script]
.data    :
   {
     _conftab_start = .;
     *(.conftab)
     _conftab_end = .;
     *(.data)
     *(.data.*)
     *(.gnu.linkonce.d*)
     SORT( CONSTRUCTORS)
   } > ram

I want all the "configuration table" data from the various modules of 
the program concatenated into one large contiguous table. This works 
just fine, but if there aren't any symbols used from a particular 
module, the table data gets discarded.
If -lmymodule is specified, and it contains any .conftab data I want it 
to be included in the executable regardless of whether any symbols are 
used from -lmymodule.
Is this possible?

Thanks for your help,
Shaun


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