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Of course - the headers are just that; descriptions of stuff to come _later_ in the file. A sane ELF file (files created by GNU ld behave this way) will have the various section headers first, followed by the actual program segments. There is no need for a loader (like RedBoot which is what started this discussion) to ever load the headers as part of the image, rather only process them to figure out what needs to be loaded and where. For example, a RAM program
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