__bss_start not correct

__bss_start not correct

[Yi Tang]

Hi,

Thank you for reading this message.

I have found problem when debugging my program. It is the problem with bss 
section. As normal, the bss section will be zeroed during system restart.

However, the two variables __bss_end and __bss_start in my system both point 
to invalid address and cause the system not cleared any bss section in 
memory.

I do found these two variables in the .symtab section using readelf in my 
elf file. But I don't know how to see whether they are actually allocated 
some memory address or not.

Can someone help me for that? Thanks a lot. Following is my elf file infos 
and link property.

Regards,
Yi
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Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x40001208
There are 1 program headers, starting at offset 52

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x010000 0x40000000 0x40000000 0x0b188 0x146a0 RWE 0x10000

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .rom_vectors .text .rodata .data .bss

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There are 16 section headers, starting at offset 0x57384:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Addr     Off    Size   ES Flg Lk 
Inf Al
  [ 0]                   NULL            00000000 000000 000000 00      0 
0  0
  [ 1] .rom_vectors      PROGBITS        40000000 010000 001390 00  AX  0 
0 16
  [ 2] .text             PROGBITS        40001390 011390 00975c 00  AX  0 
0  8
  [ 3] .fini             PROGBITS        4000aaec 01b188 000000 00   W  0 
0  1
  [ 4] .rodata           PROGBITS        4000aaec 01aaec 00027c 00   A  0 
0  8
  [ 5] .rodata1          PROGBITS        4000ad68 01b188 000000 00   W  0 
0  1
  [ 6] .fixup            PROGBITS        4000ad68 01b188 000000 00   W  0 
0  1
  [ 7] .gcc_except_table PROGBITS        4000ad68 01b188 000000 00   W  0 
0  1
  [ 8] .data             PROGBITS        4000ad68 01ad68 000420 00  WA  0 
0  8
  [ 9] .bss              NOBITS          4000b188 01b188 009518 00  WA  0 
0 16
  [10] .stab             PROGBITS        00000000 01b188 0153d8 0c     11 
0  4
  [11] .stabstr          STRTAB          00000000 030560 026af5 00      0 
0  1
  [12] .comment          PROGBITS        00000000 057055 0002ac 00      0 
0  1
  [13] .shstrtab         STRTAB          00000000 057301 000081 00      0 
0  1
  [14] .symtab           SYMTAB          00000000 057604 001e50 10     15 
173  4
  [15] .strtab           STRTAB          00000000 059454 0029c9 00      0 
0  1
Key to Flags:
  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings)
  I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown)
  O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific)

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Symbol table '.symtab' contains 485 entries:
   Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
   277: 400146a0     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  ABS __bss_end
   362: 4000b188     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  ABS __bss_start
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CFLAGS        = -I$(INSTALL_DIR)/include -msoft-float -g -Wall -Q
LDFLAGS 
      = -L$(INSTALL_DIR)/lib -Ttarget.ld -nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static 
 -Q
LIBS          = $(INSTALL_DIR)/lib -Ttarget.ld
ECOS_GLOBAL_LDFLAGS 
   = -g -nostdlib -fvtable-gc -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-static

ttrtest: ttrtest.o uivsr.o
 $(XLD) $(LDFLAGS) $(ECOS_GLOBAL_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $@.o uivsr.o
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my link scripts:
STARTUP(vectors.o)
ENTRY(reset_vector)

INPUT(extras.o)


GROUP(libtarget.a libgcc.a libsupc++.a)
MEMORY
{
    ram : ORIGIN = 0x40000000, LENGTH = 0x40000000
}

SECTIONS
{

    .rom_vectors 0x40000000 : { . = .; KEEP (*(.vectors)) } > ram
    .text ALIGN (0x1) : { _stext = ABSOLUTE(.); *(.text*) *(.gnu.warning) 
*(.gnu.linkonce*) *(.init) } > ram _etext = .; PROVIDE (etext = .);
    .fini ALIGN (0x1) : { . = .; *(.fini) } > ram
    .rodata ALIGN (0x1) : { . = .; *(.rodata*) } > ram
    .rodata1 ALIGN (0x1) : { . = .; *(.rodata1) } > ram
    .fixup ALIGN (0x1) : { . = .; *(.fixup) } > ram
    .gcc_except_table ALIGN (0x1) : { . = .; *(.gcc_except_table) } > ram
    .data ALIGN (0x1) : { __ram_data_start = ABSOLUTE (.); *(.data*) 
*(.data1) _GOT1_START_ = ABSOLUTE (.); *(.got1) _GOT1_END_ = ABSOLUTE (.); 
_GOT2_START_ = ABSOLUTE (.); *(.got2) _GOT2_END_ = ABSOLUTE (.); . = ALIGN 
(4); KEEP(*( SORT (.ecos.table.*))) ; __CTOR_LIST__ = ABSOLUTE (.); 
KEEP(*(SORT(.ctors*))) __CTOR_END__ = ABSOLUTE (.); __DTOR_LIST__ = ABSOLUTE 
(.); KEEP(*(SORT(.dtors*))) __DTOR_END__ = ABSOLUTE (.); _GOT_START = 
ABSOLUTE (.); _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ = ABSOLUTE (.) + 32768; _SDA_BASE_ = 
ABSOLUTE (.); *(.got.plt) *(.got) _GOT_END_ = ABSOLUTE (.); *(.dynamic) 
*(.sdata*) *(.sbss*) *(.eh_frame) } > ram __rom_data_start = LOADADDR 
(.data); . = ALIGN (8); __ram_data_end = .; PROVIDE (__ram_data_end = .); 
_edata = .; PROVIDE (edata = .);
    .bss ALIGN (0x8) (NOLOAD) : { __bss_start = ABSOLUTE (.); *(.scommon) 
*(.dynbss) *(.bss) *(.bss.*) *(COMMON) __bss_end = ABSOLUTE (.); } > ram
    __heap1 = ALIGN (0x8);
    . = ALIGN(8); _end = .; PROVIDE (end = .); .debug 0 : { *(.debug) } 
.line 0 : { *(.line) } .debug_srcinfo 0 : { *(.debug_srcinfo) } 
.debug_sfnames 0 : { *(.debug_sfnames) } .debug_aranges 0 : { 
*(.debug_aranges) } .debug_pubnames 0 : { *(.debug_pubnames) } .debug_info 0 
: { *(.debug_info) } .debug_abbrev 0 : { *(.debug_abbrev) } .debug_line 0 : 
{ *(.debug_line) } .debug_frame 0 : { *(.debug_frame) } .debug_str 0 : { 
*(.debug_str) } .debug_loc 0 : { *(.debug_loc) } .debug_macinfo 0 : { 
*(.debug_macinfo) } .debug_weaknames 0 : { *(.debug_weaknames) } 
.debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) } .debug_typenames 0 : { 
*(.debug_typenames) } .debug_varnames 0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
}