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Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote on 03/25/2007 01:44:34 AM:

# One problem with GCC-4.1.0 and later is that .bss section is incorrectly
#   included in executable in case of C++ programs, which unnecessarily
# bloats executables. The problem is with use of compiler option
# -fdata-sections when building libstdcxx.a. I tried to look a bit and
# mess with generated assembler sources, but did not succeed to find a
# reasonable solution. Maybe the best would be ugly workaround to update
# linker script to put .bss.* in .data section instead of .bss. .bss.* is
# only generated if -fdata-sections is being used, so little or not at all
# harm is expected from such update.

I'm going to accede to you here; I awill admit that I don't have a deep
understanding of the linker map.  Ut seems like one of those things I'll
end up needing to understand someday, when I run into a problem that
requires me to :)

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