In addition to the Segment Types defined in the
System V ABI
and
System V ABI Update
the following Segment Types shall also be supported.
Table 12-1. Linux Segment Types
| Name | Value |
|---|
| PT_GNU_EH_FRAME | 0x6474e550 |
| PT_GNU_STACK | 0x6474e551 |
| PT_GNU_RELRO | 0x6474e552 |
| PT_GNU_EH_FRAME | | The array element specifies the location and size of the exception handling
information as defined by the .eh_frame_hdr section. |
| PT_GNU_STACK | | The p_flags member specifies the permissions
on the segment containing the stack and is used to indicate wether the
stack should be executable. The absense of this header indicates that
the stack will be executable. |
| PT_GNU_RELRO | | the array element specifies the location and size of a segment which
may be made read-only after relocations have been processed. |