From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3161 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2018 05:01:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gnu-gabi-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Sender: gnu-gabi-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 2471 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2018 05:01:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Checked: by ClamAV 0.100.1 on sourceware.org X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on sourceware.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:01:58 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50C363082128; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg.str.redhat.com (ovpn-116-50.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.50]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6013060F8C; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:01:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: "H.J. Lu" Cc: gnu-gabi@sourceware.org, Binutils Subject: Re: RFC: Add SHT_GNU_PHDRS References: Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (H. J. Lu's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:53:57 -0700") Message-ID: <87tvmbv8hp.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.42]); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:01:57 +0000 (UTC) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-q3/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 * H. J. Lu: > I am proposing > > #define SHT_GNU_PHDRS 0x6ffffff4 /* Dummy section for program header */ > > This is a special read-only SHF_ALLOC zero-size data section. It is the > first output section, which will force a data PT_LOAD segment with program > header before the code-only PT_LOAD segment, Is it actually a requirement in the ELF specification that all bits loaded via segments are covered by sections as well? Thanks, Florian