Is it possible to make an ELF section not `alloc`?

I was trying to manually create a `.stabstr` section to learn about the format.
FASM sets the `A` (`alloc`) flag on the section.
The default linker script links `.stabstr` at address `0x0`.
This shouldn't matter, because normally compilers create the `.stabstr` section without the `alloc` flag, so the loader never loads it into memory.
Since the `alloc` flag is set in this case, the loader maps the `.stabstr` section at address `0x0` and causes SEGFAULT.

Does FASM always add the `alloc` flag to all sections?
Is there a way to change this?

Here's the code that I'm using

Code:

format ELF

section '.text'
public _start
_start:
mov eax, 1
mov ebx, 0
int 0x80

section '.stabstr'
align 1
string_table_start:
    db 0

build commands:

Code:

        fasm stab.fasm ./build/stab.o
        ld -m elf_i386 ./build/stab.o -o ./build/stab

readelf output before linking:

Code:

$ readelf -a ./build/stab.o
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)
  Machine:                           Intel 80386
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x0
  Start of program headers:          0 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          172 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x0
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           0 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         0
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         5
  Section header string table index: 4

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Addr     Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
  [ 0]                   NULL            00000000 000000 000000 00      0   0  0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS        00000000 000034 00000c 00   A  0   0  4
  [ 2] .stabstr          PROGBITS        00000000 000040 000001 00   A  0   0  4
  [ 3] .symtab           SYMTAB          00000000 000044 000040 10      4   3  4
  [ 4] .strtab           STRTAB          00000000 000084 000027 00      0   0  1
Key to Flags:
  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings), I (info),
  L (link order), O (extra OS processing required), G (group), T (TLS),
  C (compressed), x (unknown), o (OS specific), E (exclude),
  D (mbind), p (processor specific)

There are no section groups in this file.

There are no program headers in this file.

There is no dynamic section in this file.

There are no relocations in this file.
No processor specific unwind information to decode

Symbol table '.symtab' contains 4 entries:
   Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
     0: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
     1: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 .text
     2: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 .stabstr
     3: 00000000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 _start

No version information found in this file.

readelf output after linking:

Code:

$ readelf -a ./build/stab
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           Intel 80386
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x8049000
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          8352 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x0
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         2
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         6
  Section header string table index: 5

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Addr     Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
  [ 0]                   NULL            00000000 000000 000000 00      0   0  0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS        08049000 002000 00000c 00   A  0   0  4
  [ 2] .stabstr          STRTAB          00000000 001000 000001 00   A  0   0  4
  [ 3] .symtab           SYMTAB          00000000 00200c 000050 10      4   1  4
  [ 4] .strtab           STRTAB          00000000 00205c 000019 00      0   0  1
  [ 5] .shstrtab         STRTAB          00000000 002075 00002a 00      0   0  1
Key to Flags:
  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings), I (info),
  L (link order), O (extra OS processing required), G (group), T (TLS),
  C (compressed), x (unknown), o (OS specific), E (exclude),
  D (mbind), p (processor specific)

There are no section groups in this file.

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x001000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00001 0x00001 R   0x1000
  LOAD           0x002000 0x08049000 0x08049000 0x0000c 0x0000c R   0x1000

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .stabstr
   01     .text

There is no dynamic section in this file.

There are no relocations in this file.
No processor specific unwind information to decode

Symbol table '.symtab' contains 5 entries:
   Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
     0: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
     1: 08049000     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 _start
     2: 0804a000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 __bss_start
     3: 0804a000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 _edata
     4: 0804a000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 _end

No version information found in this file.