Author: Daniel Jacobowitz Date: To: Ian Lance Taylor CC: Cary Coutant, Diego Novillo, gcc, Kenneth Zadeck, Jan Hubicka, Rafael Espindola, Ollie Wild, Robert Hundt Subject: Re: [whopr] Design/implementation alternatives for the driver and WPA
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:48:11PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > * The linker does normally copy unrecognized sections with the
> SHF_ALLOC bit clear to the output file. It doesn't allocate address
> space for them, but it does copy them. I think this follows the ELF
> ABI. I don't know of any generic way to direct the linker to not
> copy sections to the output file.
Didn't someone say on the gABI list recently that they had a bit for
this? Ah, H. J. proposed it and Rod Evans from Sun said they already
had an SHF_EXCLUDE:
