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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 15:47:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: .align directives in libc.a
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> I counted the number of .bss .data and .text sections in libc.a
> (nm libc.a | grep .text | wc -l etc.) and ended up with 2123 sections but a
> lot of them seem to be empty. If we align them to 32 byte boundaries,

After playing with the binutils in CVS this weekend, I don't think this is 
right. 'nm' prints symbols and what you're seeing are the symbols 
defined when a section is created. When a .text section is created, a 
.text symbol is created to go with it. The linker combines the sections, 
but leaves the symbols around. A garbage collector would take care of 
this and is a new feature in 2.10, but isn't implemented for COFF.

To see the sections and their alignment, use 'objdump --section-
headers'.

Mark

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