[RFC] SHF_GNU_RETAIN ELF Section Flag

[Florian Weimer]

* Jozef Lawrynowicz:

> 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.

But if there is nothing to group the section with, why would the link
editor load the object?

That's the part I don't understand.

Thanks,
Florian
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