[Bug ld/12565] NOLOAD sections empty

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12565

--- Comment #7 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> 2011-06-30 14:47:49 
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(In reply to comment #6)
> Hi H.J., Hi Alan,
> 
> I have been looking at PR 12565, and I have to say that I do not 
> understand the linker's behaviour for NOLOAD sections on ELF based 
> targets.  What is the point of having a section that cannot be loaded 
> and that does not have any contents ?
> 
> Also, as far as I can see, this behaviour is not documented anywhere. 
> Do you know of any applications that rely upon this feature ?
> 

NOLOAD means "don't load into memory", which maps to NOBITS.
Otherwise, it will be loaded into memory.

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