Comment by poizan42

The thing I'm wondering about with this is why ld by default creates only two LOAD segments, one r-x and one rw-. .text and .rodata are put into the former while .data is put into the latter. This is the only reason this works. So my question is why there isn't a third LOAD segment with access r-- for the read only data? If anything it would reduce the surface of where to find ROP gadgets slightly so couldn't hurt, no?