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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:42:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: how to set .bss section type to PROGBITS within linker script
To: William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:38 AM William Tambe via Binutils
<binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
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> Is there a way to set .bss section type to PROGBITS within a linker script ?

By definition, a .bss output section is NOBITS.  You can't make a NOBITS
output section PROGBITS.

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H.J.