From: egor duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
To: Wolfgang Hesseler <qv@multimediaware.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug: BSS segment in COFF files
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8783643973.20020712180337@logos-m.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9382195250.20020712173928@logos-m.ru>
Hi!
Friday, 12 July, 2002 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:
ed> Friday, 12 July, 2002 Wolfgang Hesseler qv@multimediaware.com wrote:
>>> >> If you run gcc with '--save-temps' flag, and then look into
>>> >> 'yourfile.s' file, you'll see that uninitialized data is tagged as
>>> >> "common" (using '.comm' directive) and is put to bss only by linker
>>> >> when final executable is created. To turn this feature off, use
>>> >> '-fno-common' flag when compiling your object file.
>>>
>>> WH> This works, however only if the variables are non-static. If a
>>> WH> variable is static the .comm directive is still used.
>>>
>>> .lcomm, to be precise.
>>>
>>> That's easy to work around. Just add 'int dummy;' to your source
>>> file compiled with gcc, and you have 4 bytes in bss section.
WH>> But how does this help? The other static variables still use
WH>> the .lcomm directive.
Hmm. I should have checked first. I'm wrong. Variables declared as
.lcomm _are_ put into .bss section in .o file.
ed> The problem seems to be that you can't reference to static variable
ed> from within the module.
[...]
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-12 6:05 Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 6:49 ` egor duda
2002-07-12 6:56 ` Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 6:59 ` egor duda
2002-07-12 7:05 ` Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 7:52 ` egor duda
2002-07-12 8:21 ` Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 8:30 ` egor duda
2002-07-12 8:39 ` Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 8:43 ` egor duda
2002-07-12 11:17 ` Wolfgang Hesseler
2002-07-12 8:22 ` egor duda [this message]
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