Re: Should mem sections have overlapping addresses?

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:15:38AM +1100, Sam address@hidden wrote:
> $ objdump -h airdac_.exe
> airpac_.exe:     file format pei-i386
> Sections:
> Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
>   0 .text         008d8980  00401000  00401000  00000400  2**4
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE, DATA
>   ...
>   7 .debug_info   151e2063  028ca000  028ca000  024b3000  2**0 <==
> VMA and SIZE match-up with trace above
>                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING

As you can see from the flags above, .debug_info is not ALLOC, LOAD.
This means the section is not loaded into memory and the VMA is
irrelevant.  Another DLL could well occupy this space, because
airpac_.exe does not use that memory.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM