From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27350 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2011 07:21:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 27335 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2011 07:21:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pz0-f41.google.com) (209.85.210.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:21:04 +0000 Received: by pzk27 with SMTP id 27so23141pzk.0 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.132.16 with SMTP id f16mr23825wfd.84.1296026462981; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.28.20 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:21:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The meaning of LMA and location counter in GNU ld From: ali hagigat To: Ian Lance Taylor , binutils@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 2011-01/txt/msg00353.txt.bz2 3.6.8.2 Output Section LMA If there is no preceding output section or the section is not allocatable, the linker will set the LMA equal to the VMA. ---------------------------------------------- What is the meaning of "the section is not allocatable" in the above sentence of ld manual? Regards