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* LD: Output section SPECIAL attribute?
@ 2011-01-27  7:40 Sebastian Huber
  2011-01-27 12:08 ` Alan Modra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Huber @ 2011-01-27  7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: binutils

Hello,

in the PowerPC default linker command file you find for example this:

.got : SPECIAL { *(.got) }

What is the meaning of the SPECIAL output section attribute?  It is not in the
documentation.

Have a nice day!

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* Re: LD: Output section SPECIAL attribute?
  2011-01-27  7:40 LD: Output section SPECIAL attribute? Sebastian Huber
@ 2011-01-27 12:08 ` Alan Modra
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Modra @ 2011-01-27 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sebastian Huber; +Cc: binutils

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:40:01AM +0100, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in the PowerPC default linker command file you find for example this:
> 
> .got : SPECIAL { *(.got) }
> 
> What is the meaning of the SPECIAL output section attribute?  It is not in the
> documentation.

It isn't documented because it isn't for general use.  See
ld/emultempl/ppc32elf.em:ppc_after_open.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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