3.10.3 Orphan Sections
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.
This document was generated
by system on July, 22 2007
using texi2html