NOLOAD in ld doesn't do anything

[Brian Eng]

Hello,

I have been using binutils 2.10 and tried to use 2.11 and 2.11.2, but it
appears that the NOLOAD directive for sections does not do anything.
Attached are a Makefile, test source file and test linker script file, along
with the resulting objdump output from 2.10 and 2.11.2.  For 2.10, the
sections just have the ALLOC attribute set; for 2.11.2, CONTENTS, ALLOC,
LOAD, DATA are set for the sections with the NOLOAD attribute.

I am compiling on a PC running FreeBSD 4.3 (gcc 2.95.3), with a target of
powerpc-eabi.  No patches were applied.  
 <<test.tar.gz>>

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