Chapter 9. Sections

9.1. Special Sections

The following sections are defined in the System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 Architecture Processor Supplement.

Table 9-1. ELF Special Sections

NameTypeAttributes
.gotSHT_PROGBITSSHF_ALLOC+SHF_WRITE
.pltSHT_PROGBITSSHF_ALLOC+SHF_EXECINSTR

.got

This section holds the global offset table

.plt

This section holds the procedure linkage table.