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Re: rela.dyn section

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: "Smith, Stephen (SWCOE)" <Stephen dot Smith at honeywell dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:48:19 +0100
Subject: Re: rela.dyn section
References: <EF244E26469B2C42B2B72AC465843D6B041AE665@AZ18EV808.global.ds.honeywell.com> <45C07754.8030806@redhat.com>

Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> If it is needed then it can be part of ROM.  It contains relocation
> information which is used to modify the .dyn section.  The .dyn section
> however should be in RAM.

The .dyn section does not exist.  The .rela.dyn section is a special
relocation section that is only created when using -z combreloc (which is
the default) to contain the combined relocation sections.

Andreas.

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