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title="NEW - Linker Script: sections with no inputs should not be SHT_NOBITS"
href="http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32537">32537</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Linker Script: sections with no inputs should not be SHT_NOBITS
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<th>Product</th>
<td>lld
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows NT
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>ELF
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jh7370.2008@my.bristol.ac.uk
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<pre>If a linker script defines a section which uses the BYTE() or similar command,
or assigns to ".", LLD assigns it a type of SHT_NOBITS. This is incorrect,
because the section actually contains data, and takes up space in the file.
Example script:
SECTIONS {
.section : { FILL(0x22222222); . += 4; BYTE(0x11); . += 4; }
}
The section contents are written to disk as:
222222221122222222
but llvm-objdump skips the section because of its type and I would expect the
loader to ignore the contents when loading the file.
The type should probably be SHT_PROGBITS by default.</pre>
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