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diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 238fde9..d7673fd 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -4442,6 +4442,7 @@ expressions. @menu * Constants:: Constants * Symbols:: Symbol Names +* Orphan Sections:: Orphan Sections * Location Counter:: The Location Counter * Operators:: Operators * Evaluation:: Evaluation @@ -4503,6 +4504,22 @@ Since symbols can contain many non-alphabetic characters, it is safest to delimit symbols with spaces. For example, @samp{A-B} is one symbol, whereas @samp{A - B} is an expression involving subtraction. +@node Orphan Sections +@subsection Orphan Sections +@cindex orphan +Orphan sections are sections present in the input files which +are not explicitly placed into the output file by the linker +script. The linker will still copy these sections into the +output file, but it has to guess as to where they should be +placed. The linker uses a simple heuristic to do this. It +attempts to place orphan sections after non-orphan sections of the +same attribute, such as code vs data, loadable vs non-loadable, etc. +If there is not enough room to do this then it places +at the end of the file. + +For ELF targets, the attribute of the section includes section type as +well as section flag. + @node Location Counter @subsection The Location Counter @kindex . |