Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:09:28 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 updates |
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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.
-hpa
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