From: "vamsi krishna" <vamsi.krishnak@gmail.com>
To: "Nick Clifton" <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com>, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: placing data into a section
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3faf05680607110711j20abb3f3h42a3816a6322542c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B3AE5D.4030304@redhat.com>
Hello
> > When I am linking an elf executable, I would like to place some bulk
> > data (e.g. a zip file or some other binary file) into a section in the
> > final executable. How can I achieve this with ld commands and the
> > linker script?
I suggest you need to add this as a SEGMENT not a SECTION, because in
a executable the section header table can be stripped off. You may
need some mechanism to add the bulk file as a PHDR PT_LOAD entry.
Just more curious on how would you refer this in your code?
Thank you,
Vamsi kundeti
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 18:06 Bahadir Balban
2006-07-10 18:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-11 13:57 ` Nick Clifton
2006-07-11 14:11 ` vamsi krishna [this message]
2006-07-11 16:19 ` Daniel S. Wilkerson
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