Thanks Ian for the explanation. Can you tell me what kind of data is
put in .rela.XXX section?
Chetan
-Original Message-
From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:i...@airs.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:10 PM
To: Arshid, Chetan (IE10)
Cc: bug-binutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in objcopy?
"Arshid, Chetan (IE10)" writes:
> I tried to rename the section (of .o file) .data to .persistent.data
> using objcopy utility. It did that, but also renamed the section
> .rela.data to .rela.persistent. I think this is a bug. If not, how
do
> I keep the .rela.data section name unchanged?
It doesn't sound like a bug. Normally the .rela.XXX section applies
to the .XXX section. If you rename a section, it seems natural to
rename the corresponding .rela section.
As far as I know there is no way to keep this from happening.
Ian
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