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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Werner_Sch=F6nenberger?= <werner DOT schoenenberger AT gmx DOT ch>
Subject: Re: Sequence of Symbol Allocation
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:33:35 +0200
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Hi Brian,

thank you for the hint. I will try that out and let you know about any 
success. Thanks a lot

Best regards,
Werner

<snip>
>
> If you define a file globals.c (below), provide a(n alias for the
> entry point) symbol in your program called _main (or main if in C
> code), compile it (with gcc option -fno-leading-underscore) and link
> it with gcc to your other code, you should find that the symbols are
> defined in order in memory and initialized to all bytes zero when your
> code is called, and the names should not be prefixed by the normal _.
> You might also have to change the current name of the entry point
> symbol in your program to _main if it conflicts with the C startup
> code: file crt0.S symbol start for gcc IIRC.
>
> globals.c:
> short  A;
> short  b;
> long   c;
> short  d;
> double e;
> short  f;
> short  Z;
<snip>