From: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
To: William Tambe <tambewilliam@gmail.com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: how to set .bss section type to PROGBITS within linker script
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:34:29 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.2009291320330.20802@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOp7EWP+mu5+orn667kkXtRafZxp990hj6kaxjVpyXREuA@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020, H.J. Lu via Binutils wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:38 AM William Tambe via Binutils
> <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Well, technically you can make all input .bss sections be part of output
.data, and get the above effect:
...
SECTIONS {
...
.data
{
*(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.*)
*(.bss .bss.* .gnu.linkonce.b.*)
SORT(CONSTRUCTORS)
}
...
}
(Of course the side-effect will be that there's no output .bss anymore, so
if you really want to have the output .bss be SHT_PROGBITS, then H.J. is
right).
Ciao,
Michael.
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2020-09-28 14:37 William Tambe
2020-09-28 14:42 ` H.J. Lu
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