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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Masaki Muranaka <monaka@monami-software.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Symbols in .comm doesn't move to .sbss?
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 10:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeu07l6sk3.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63EE13CB-5DAC-43CD-8AC9-38009C20A7FF@monami-software.com> 	(Masaki Muranaka's message of "Sat, 20 May 2006 15:20:57 +0900")

Masaki Muranaka <monaka@monami-software.com> writes:

> I found a support in read.c / bss_alloc().
> The symbol in .lcomm will be collected because bss_alloc
> is called by s_lcomm. But there is no path for .comm.
> So the symbols in .comm will be never moved to .sbss.
>
> Is this a bug? or a correct behavior?

I don't think it would be correct to move .comm to .sbss, since the symbol
could be merged with a larger .comm symbol of the same name in a different
module during linking.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-20  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-20  7:53 Masaki Muranaka
2006-05-20 10:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-05-20 12:22   ` Masaki Muranaka
2006-05-20 14:40     ` Masaki Muranaka

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