[avr-gcc-list] Missing Section

[Gre7g Luterman]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'm creating
a .hex file with avr-objcopy.exe (like I've always
done in the past), but one of my sections is
disappearing.

>From cygwin, I can type:

$ avr-objdump.exe -V
GNU objdump 2.17 + coff-avr-patch (20050630)
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License. 
This program has absolutely no warranty.

$ avr-objcopy.exe -V
GNU objcopy 2.17 + coff-avr-patch (20050630)
Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License. 
This program has absolutely no warranty.

$ avr-objdump.exe -dj .update RIO-15C/temp1.elf |less

RIO-15C/temp1.elf:     file format elf32-avr

Disassembly of section .update:

00001e40 <UpdateFlash>:
    1e40:       f8 94           cli
    1e42:       08 e1           ldi     r16, 0x18     
 ; 24
    1e44:       01 bd           out     0x21, r16     
 ; 33
    1e46:       00 e0           ldi     r16, 0x00     
 ; 0
<snipped>

So there is obviously code at 0x1E40, as there should
be, but when I create my .hex file:

$ avr-objcopy.exe -O ihex -R .eeprom RIO-15C/temp1.elf
temp.hex

$ tail temp.hex
:101D900080917100909172006D3E91F47A3D81F4D2
:101DA0008B3E71F49E3F61F44FEF44AF45AF46AFB9
:101DB00047AF81CE803B20F48A5A880F805C8FCE5B
:101DC00082E090E0089515D001921A94E1F7089509
:101DD000E199FECFBFBBAEBB0DBA11960FB6F8941A
:101DE000E29AE19A0FBE08950190F2DF1A94E1F7AA
:101DF0000895E199FECFBFBBAEBBE09A11960DB23C
:021E0000089543
:041E0200FF0F983AFC
:00000001FF

There's the end of my .text section, but my .update
section which starts at 0x1E40 is nowhere to be found.

I've looked through the file with a text editor (in
case it was placed out of order), but it's simply not
there.

I've even tried removing the "-R .eeprom" in case my
.update section had merged under the .eeprom section
somehow, but that didn't do it.  If I do that, I can
see the .eeprom section added, but no .update.

Pretty weird, huh?  Check this out:

$ avr-objcopy.exe -j .update RIO-15C/temp1.elf
temp.hex
BFD: RIO-15C/temp1.elf: warning: Empty loadable
segment detected, is this intentional ?

BFD: RIO-15C/temp1.elf: warning: Empty loadable
segment detected, is this intentional ?

BFD: RIO-15C/temp1.elf: warning: Empty loadable
segment detected, is this intentional ?

BFD: RIO-15C/temp1.elf: warning: Empty loadable
segment detected, is this intentional ?

avr-objdump.exe can see my .update section, but
avr-objcopy.exe can't.

Please help!

Gre7g

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