------- Comment #3 from joseph at codesourcery dot com 2005-12-21 19:46 ------- Subject: Re: zero-initialized constants are place in .bss
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > Actually no, they are placed in the common section because of ANSI C rules. There is no such requirement. > This is not a bug. ELF supports having a read-only equivalent of .bss (type SHT_NOBITS, attributes SHF_ALLOC without SHF_WRITE). We could allocate such a section name for read-only zero-initialized data and use it on ELF systems. That way the data is read-only but doesn't consume space in the executable (presuming the rest of the toolchain handles this case OK). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25522
