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> Given how ELF works I would expect an unknown section to simply end up > in the output, but we can use SHF_EXCLUDE to avoid that. Yes, gold currently treats unknown section types pretty much the same as PROGBITS sections. The SHF_ALLOCATE and SHF_EXCLUDE flags would control where and whether the section goes into the output file. Another thing that we need to work out is the link order.