Re: Output section type (READONLY)

[Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>]

On 2022-02-16, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>  I have gone ahead and applied an update form of Fanguri's patch (attached).

Thanks, this enables a proper way to set the section type in the future.
Hope someone implements this for gold as well since it does not
recognize .note* as SHT_NOTE, either.

>  I extended the patch so that READONLY and type=<typename> can be used together
>  if desired, like this:
>
>    .ro.note   (READONLY (TYPE=SHT_NOTE)) : { LONG(5678); }

... But I am a little bit uneasy with the additional support for READONLY.
Michael's comment (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-February/119627.html) makes a lot of sense to me
and I think we really need evidence that (READONLY) is needed and worth
adding this syntax to support it...

>  (I chose this particular syntax because it was the easiest to implement.
>
>  Other than that the patch retains all of the features in the original submission:
>
>https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-February/119600.html
>
>Cheers
>  Nick

In addition, as mentioned on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2052801 ideally when the
output section contains an input section of a different type, ld should
report a type mismatch error to prevent misuse, but I don't know how...