[RFC] SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 9/15/20 12:52 PM, Jozef Lawrynowicz wrote:
> I suppose the most compelling use cases for SHF_GNU_RETAIN are when the
> dependency cannot be expressed with references to ELF sections. You
> can't use SHF_GROUP because there is nothing to group the section with.

GRP_KEEP - Group of sections to always keep. Never discarded if included
           in the link.

The benefit is you can give them a logical group name e.g. "cpu_features"
and have more than one of them for accounting/documentation purposes.

You can implement a "KEEP" source markup based on gas' .section directive?

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Cheers,
Carlos.