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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:29:47 +0200
From: Wolfgang Hesseler <qv AT multimediaware DOT com>
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To: egor duda <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug: BSS segment in COFF files
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> $ cat x.c
> int a;
> static int b[10000];
> $ gcc -fno-common -save-temps -c x.c
> $ cat x.s
>         .file   "x.i"
> .globl _a
>         .bss
>         .align 4
> _a:
>         .space 4
> .lcomm _b,40000
> $ objdump --section-headers x.o
> Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
>   0 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  2**2
>                   ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
>   1 .data         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000  2**2
>                   ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
>   2 .bss          00009c48  00000000  00000000  00000000  2**2
>                   ALLOC

Right. But the whole Cygwin wouldn't work if its programs wouldn't recognize
its own object code properly. My problem is that Cygwin produces
some non-standard COFF object files. I will do some experiments with
objcopy and see if that helps to solve the problem.


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