From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
To: <peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: objcopy --set-section-flags .data=alloc,load,data,share
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33bzg5s37.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041111102549.GP7593@altair.cygnus.nl>
<peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl> writes:
> I've got a question about semantics of the "share" section flag
> in objcopy. It seems not be documented anywhere and all links I
> could google up refer to COFF binaries, with unexplained semantics
> as well. Is there a possibility to mark a "shared" section in ELF,
> so that OS's that need it can map the section as shared?
The "share" section flag can not be represented in ELF.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "map the section as shared," but
the answer is probably no: there is no way to do that in ELF. Note
that typical ELF systems will automatically share read-only text
segments.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 15:22 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-11 10:26 ` peter.kourzanov
2004-11-11 15:22 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2004-11-11 16:00 ` peter.kourzanov
2004-11-11 16:22 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-11 16:40 ` peter.kourzanov
2004-11-11 19:38 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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