Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-objcopy not copying custom section...

[Boyapati, Anitha]

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>>> Yes. That is where the confusion stemmed from.
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>>Hi Anitha,
>>
>>Last time, I didn't look exhaustively for flags in the ELF format. With
>>the aid of "readelf -e test.elf", we can see that there are more section
>>flags in the section header:
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>...
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>>Key to Flags:
>>  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings)
>>  I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown)
>>  O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific)
>>
>>I overlooked that before. In the sh_flags member of the Shdr struct, the
>>ELF format does have separate explicit alloc and execute flags.
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>I did not :-)
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>Initially I referred to the age old System V ABI spec for reference which
>still had R, W and X flags. However the ELF dump showed more (as you have
>mentioned below).
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>>> 'objdump' program works on BFD structures. The set of BFD section
>>> flags for a super set to ELF section flags. So, the dump of section
>>> headers shows BFD flags but not ELF flags.
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>What made me mention the BFD flags is w.r.t 'CONTENTS' and 'LOAD'. These do
>not appear in ELF spec as section attributes. So I think objdump is just
>dumping ELF+ extra BFD attributes.
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Oops, typo. Please read attributes as flags.


Anitha