* John Cowan: > ELF format is divided into sections, and NOTE sections contain arbitrary > key-value pairs, where the value can be up to 2 GB. There seems to be no > utility for adding and removing these, but there is no problem in > principle: the ELF format is well documented, and a tool (called elftar, > perhaps) to add, remove, and extract such chunks would be straightforward. > It would just be necessary to establish a convention about which keys > correspond to source files.
SHT_NOTE sections are parsed by the link editor, though, so they have to use a specific format (and believe it or not, there is still some disagreement about the details). It's probably easier to just use a non-allocated SHT_PROGBITS section, as it is commonly done for debugging information. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
