From: ian@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Section attributes from ld
15 Jul 1997 16:25:17 -0700
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>How does ld determine which attributes sections are to have? By
>attributes, I mean things like:-

>Contains code, contains initialised data, should be laoded with
>execute permission, should be loaded with read permission, should be
>loaded with write permission etc.

The attributes are based on the attributes of the input sections which
are mapped into the output sections.  Take a look at
gas/config/obj-coff.c to see how to use the .section directive in an
assembler file.

Ian
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