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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:03:37 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
Reply-To: egor duda <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Wolfgang Hesseler <qv AT multimediaware DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Bug: BSS segment in COFF files
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Hi!

Friday, 12 July, 2002 egor duda deo AT logos-m DOT ru wrote:

ed> Friday, 12 July, 2002 Wolfgang Hesseler qv AT multimediaware DOT com wrote:

>>> >> If you run gcc with '--save-temps' flag, and then look into
>>> >> 'yourfile.s' file, you'll see that uninitialized data is tagged as
>>> >> "common" (using '.comm' directive) and is put to bss only by linker
>>> >> when final executable is created. To turn this feature off, use
>>> >> '-fno-common' flag when compiling your object file.
>>> 
>>> WH> This works, however only if the variables are non-static. If a
>>> WH> variable is static the .comm directive is still used.
>>> 
>>> .lcomm, to be precise.
>>> 
>>> That's easy to work around. Just add 'int dummy;' to your source
>>> file compiled with gcc, and you have 4 bytes in bss section.

WH>> But how does this help? The other static variables still use 
WH>> the .lcomm directive.

Hmm. I should have checked first. I'm wrong. Variables declared as
.lcomm _are_ put into .bss section in .o file.

ed> The problem seems to be that you can't reference to static variable
ed> from within the module.

[...]

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19


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