Re: [Nasm-devel] ELF: The handling of the .comment section

[Charles C. <cc...@cr...>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:10:44 -0700
"anonymous coward" <nas...@us...> wrote:

> What ever happened to the "only do what the users requests" mantra?

Totally impractical in modern operating systems. Should we require the
users to explicitly ask for each of the other reserved ELF sections?
[.shstrtab, .symtab, and .strtab] How about the various
relocation sections? Should we allow the users to disable any of the
above? Should we allow them to supply their own code for any of them?

However, I do believe that the .comment section should be treated like
the predefined sections. [.text, .data, .rodata, .bss] For which the
users can supply their own code, so long as they don't try to change
the section attributes.

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Chuck 
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