<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/108482>108482</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            [lld] empy sections use PROGBITS without any payload
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            lld
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          quic-seaswara
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    Empty sections are assigned PROGBITS type with LLD.

BFD linker uses NOBITS for empty sections without any payload.

```
cat > script.t  << \!
SECTIONS {
  .empty : {
    . = . + 100;
 }
}
!

cat > 1.c << \!
int foo() { return 0; }
!

/usr/bin/clang -c 1.c -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
ld.lld 1.o -T script.t && readelf -S -W a.out | grep empty
/usr/bin/ld.bfd 1.o -T script.t && readelf -S -W a.out | grep empty

```

Output from readelf :-

```
+ readelf -S -W a.out
+ grep empty
  [ 1] .empty            PROGBITS        0000000000000000 001000 000064 00   A  0 0  1
+ /usr/bin/ld.bfd 1.o -T script.t
+ readelf -S -W a.out
+ grep empty
  [ 2] .empty            NOBITS          0000000000000008 200008 000064 00  WA  0   0  1

```

</pre>
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