15.2.24 Noload Function Attribute
The
noload attribute instructs the compiler to place the function in
a section that has the noload attribute set. It tells consumers
of the ELF files not to load the contents of the section. This attribute can be
useful when you just want to reserve memory for something, but you don’t want to
clear or initialize memory. For
example:void __attribute__ ((noload)) foo(void);