------- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-03-07 16:53 ------- (In reply to comment #12) > Could you please e-mail me "good" and "bad"? I wonder if PPC is similar to > MIPS > in using small data sections.
"good" and "bad" are identical: bash-3.2$ readelf -Ss good There are 7 section headers, starting at offset 0x88: Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .data PROGBITS 10010054 000054 000008 00 WA 0 0 1 [ 2] .sbss NOBITS 1001005c 00005c 000008 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 3] .bss NOBITS 10010068 00005c 000020 00 WA 0 0 8 [ 4] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 00005c 00002c 00 0 0 1 [ 5] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 0001a0 0000b0 10 6 4 4 [ 6] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 000250 000025 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) Symbol table '.symtab' contains 11 entries: Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name 0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND 1: 10010054 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1 2: 1001005c 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2 3: 10010068 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3 4: 10010078 15 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 3 ef 5: 10010068 15 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 3 df 6: 10010060 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 e4 7: 1001005c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS __bss_start 8: 1001005c 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 d4 9: 1001005c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS _edata 10: 10010088 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS _end bash-3.2$ ef is in .bss since its size, 15, > 8. e4 is in .sbss since its size, 4, <= 8. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5866 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils