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From:	alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	__attribute__ ((nocommon))
Date:	Sat, 03 Aug 1996 15:01:39 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In my work on putting things in sections, I was told by info that to
prevent uninitialised variables going into bss, I would have to use
said attribute - but it doesn't work! I was testing my locking library
(please note: the extern definitions for the section start/end labels
should be chars not ints - change that if you're playing with it), and
I found that uninitialised C variables with nocommon didn't go between
the section markers! Initialising same with zero did the trick...

What /is/ it with __attribute__s?

-> section   (fixeable)
-> packed
-> nocommon

Do any of them work????

Regards,


ABW
--
I have become... Comfortably numb...

Alaric B. Williams Internet : alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
<A HREF="http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/Alaric/">http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/Alaric/</A>

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