On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:48:11PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > * The linker does normally copy unrecognized sections with the > SHF_ALLOC bit clear to the output file. It doesn't allocate address > space for them, but it does copy them. I think this follows the ELF > ABI. I don't know of any generic way to direct the linker to not > copy sections to the output file.
Didn't someone say on the gABI list recently that they had a bit for this? Ah, H. J. proposed it and Rod Evans from Sun said they already had an SHF_EXCLUDE: http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/5cf669951cb2eef1 -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
