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The motivation is not only memory savings but also security: can-never-be-written is strictly better than RELRO in all cases. The biggest win is when .dynamic is the sole reason for having a writable segment at all. The distinction is fairly small for exploitability, but not negligible. LLD already has several command-line options that are not supported by or are different from ld or gold, so