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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:14:24 +1100 (EST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Danny=20Smith?= <danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in handling of BSS sections?
To: Julian Hall <jules AT acris DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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 --- Julian Hall <jules AT acris DOT co DOT uk> wrote: > 
> Hi; I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, but I just had
> a bug report for NASM, which I am one of the maintainers of, relating to
> linking code assembled by NASM with the cygwin or mingw linkers.
> 
> I've done a little investigation, and have managed to rule out NASM as
> the source of the problem; I attach a .OBJ file which was created by MS
> Visual Studio.  When examined with the tools supplied with Visual
> Studio, this object file contains a .BSS section of size 4; however, 
> when viewed with 'objdump' under cygwin (GNU objdump 2.11.90), the BSS 
> section has 0 size.
> 



This appears to be fixed in CVS binutils:
objdump -V

GNU objdump 2.11.92 20011216 

objdump -x testing.obj
===snip===
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .drectve      00000027  00000000  00000000  000000dc  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING, EXCLUDE
  1 .debug$S      00000113  00000000  00000000  00000103  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, RELOC, READONLY, DATA, DEBUGGING
  2 .bss          00000004  00000000  00000000  00000000  2**2
                  ALLOC
  3 .text         00000005  00000000  00000000  0000023e  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  4 .debug$T      00000030  00000000  00000000  0000024f  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA, DEBUGGING



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