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Re: document about gnu extended elf sections

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: "Amker.Cheng" <amker dot cheng at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:14:52 +0000
Subject: Re: document about gnu extended elf sections
References: <e8b251c81003040132g6a0a91b9g23c844af9e42dc4d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Amker,

There are some gnu extended elf sections such as ".gnu.attributes"...
I searched around but seems some of these sections are not documented well.
So, where could I get some documents about these sections? Any URLs?

You can find a description of the contents of the .gnu.attributes section in the assembler manual:

http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.20/as/GNU-Object-Attributes.html

As for other sections, documentation on them is sparse. Ian Lance Taylor has written a very informative series of blogs on linkers and what they do. In particular you might like to look at:

  http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/52
  http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/54

Which contain descriptions of some of these extra sections.

Cheers
  Nick

References:
- document about gnu extended elf sections
  - From: Amker.Cheng

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