[Bug ld/30145] No way to specify PE IMAGE_SCN_* characteristics

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30145

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Pali,

  I am hesitant to change ld as it would mean introducing changes to the linker
  script syntax which might cause new bugs - and which would restrict users to
  using the bfd linker, instead of having a free choice.

  But it should be possible to provide the functionality using objcopy.  In
fact
  it might already be supported.  Objcopy has a --set-section-flags option
which
  accepts a range of arguments (alloc, load, noload, readonly, debug, code,
data,
  rom, exclude, share, contents, merge, strings).  Have you tried using this
  option to achieve the results you desire ?

  If it works, then maybe all that we need to do is to document how the
arguments
  to the option correspond to various IMAGE_SCN_* flags.  If not, then maybe we
  can add some more arguments that do map to the required flags.  What do you 
  think ?

Cheers
  Nick

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