https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28743
--- Comment #12 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- A simple testcase: [hjl@gnu-tgl-3 pr28743-2]$ cat relro1.s .globl main .globl start .globl _start .globl __start .text main: start: _start: __start: .long 0 .data .long 0 .section .data.rel.ro,"aw",%progbits .long 0 [hjl@gnu-tgl-3 pr28743-2]$ make as -mx86-used-note=no -o relro1.o relro1.s ./ld -z noseparate-code -z relro -o relro1 relro1.o readelf -lSW relro1 There are 7 section headers, starting at offset 0x1128: Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Address Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .text PROGBITS 00000000004000e8 0000e8 000004 00 AX 0 0 1 [ 2] .data.rel.ro PROGBITS 0000000000401ffc 000ffc 000004 00 WA 0 0 1 [ 3] .data PROGBITS 0000000000402000 001000 000004 00 WA 0 0 1 [ 4] .symtab SYMTAB 0000000000000000 001008 0000c0 18 5 1 8 [ 5] .strtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 0010c8 000026 00 0 0 1 [ 6] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 0010ee 000034 00 0 0 1 Key to Flags: W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings), I (info), L (link order), O (extra OS processing required), G (group), T (TLS), C (compressed), x (unknown), o (OS specific), E (exclude), D (mbind), l (large), p (processor specific) Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x4000e8 There are 3 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align LOAD 0x000000 0x0000000000400000 0x0000000000400000 0x0000ec 0x0000ec R E 0x1000 LOAD 0x000ffc 0x0000000000401ffc 0x0000000000401ffc 0x000008 0x000008 RW 0x1000 GNU_RELRO 0x000ffc 0x0000000000401ffc 0x0000000000401ffc 0x000004 0x000004 R 0x1 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .text 01 .data.rel.ro .data 02 .data.rel.ro [hjl@gnu-tgl-3 pr28743-2]$ -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.