<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Output Section Constraint - Untitled</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes" title="Output Section Attributes"> <link rel="prev" href="Forced-Input-Alignment.html#Forced-Input-Alignment" title="Forced Input Alignment"> <link rel="next" href="Output-Section-Region.html#Output-Section-Region" title="Output Section Region"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU linker LD (GNU Binutils) version 2.26. Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Output-Section-Constraint"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Output-Section-Region.html#Output-Section-Region">Output Section Region</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Forced-Input-Alignment.html#Forced-Input-Alignment">Forced Input Alignment</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes">Output Section Attributes</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">3.6.8.5 Output Section Constraint</h5> <p><a name="index-ONLY_005fIF_005fRO-484"></a><a name="index-ONLY_005fIF_005fRW-485"></a><a name="index-constraints-on-output-sections-486"></a>You can specify that an output section should only be created if all of its input sections are read-only or all of its input sections are read-write by using the keyword <code>ONLY_IF_RO</code> and <code>ONLY_IF_RW</code> respectively. </body></html>