From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29770 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2010 13:44:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 29748 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Oct 2010 13:44:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.160.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:44:11 +0000 Received: by pwj3 with SMTP id 3so238621pwj.0 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.194.12 with SMTP id r12mr3372101wff.366.1287409448448; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([115.187.252.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm22971351wfc.17.2010.10.18.06.43.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E45D9170C206; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:13:30 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:44:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Kai Tietz Cc: Dave Korn , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: SEC_NEVER_LOAD cleanup Message-ID: <20101018134330.GF26553@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kai Tietz , Dave Korn , binutils@sourceware.org References: <20100916000335.GS16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> <4CB8BF7A.2090904@gmail.com> <20101016023559.GB26553@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20101017232913.GD26553@bubble.grove.modra.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00283.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 08:21:56AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote: > According to pe-coff specification NOLOAD means that a section has > neither allocation nor the load flag set. For example .debug* or > .metadata sections have this style described in pe-coff specification. > They are part of the image without being mapped into process-memory on > module load time, but have content and have image-file pointers. http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/topics/COFF_SectHdrFlags.html disagrees. STYP_NOLOAD 0x02 Noload section (allocated, relocated, not loaded) -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM