[PATCH] Handle GNU Build Attribute ELF Notes.

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 15 12:31:00 GMT 2018


Hi Mark,

> I have a local hack that defines SHF_GNU_BUILD_NOTE and allows it in
> elflint. But without any documentation on what the semantics of this
> section flag are. I cannot find this flag being used in the binaries
> generated on Fedora 29. Is this flag ever used?

No. :-(

I would like to use it, but since it has not been accepted into the ELF
standard yet, and none of the usual tools recognise it, I have not enabled
its generation by the annobin plugin.

Cheers
  Nick




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