On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:09:28PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section flags
> >wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable section
> >accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can anything more
> >serious happen? (they cannot get into any of the discarded sections, we
> >filter for them explicitly in the linker scripts)
> >
>
> The practical consequences are probably zero - *except* for getting the
> "a" flag wrong, as !a sections will never be loaded.
>
> Technically we should also specify @progbits or @nobits on sections,
> however, I think @progbits is the default.
I have on my todo list to do so. But I wanted to investigate a bit
more since I do not yet fully understand the difference.
And we have to use %progbits and %nobits as ARM uses '"' to indicate
comments.
Sam
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