Re: ELF - section to program header mapping

I do not see any PHDRS in linker script vmlinux.lds and more over I thought it was fixed and not build from anything else.
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, John Reiser wrote:

How/who decides which sections goes into which Segement and Program
header in an elf binary?

A linker script decides. For instance: arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds ,
which itself is built from other sources.



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