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-Tbss on ELF harmful?
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- Subject: -Tbss on ELF harmful?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:46:49 -0500
One of our customers has pointed out that -Tbss doesn't work with ELF
because the __bss_start symbol is not actually inside the .bss
section, and thus won't get moved with it. However, __bss_start also
encompasses .sbss, so we can't just move the symbol inside .bss to fix
it. I can think of a couple of hacks to try to detect cases where it
breaks/works, but they're really hacks and still not 100% reliable. I
hate to remove or deprecate it, because for some formats (like the
a.out it was designed for) it's an appropriate option.
What to do? Ideas? Opinions?