------- Comment #8 from sjackman at gmail dot com 2006-03-15 20:10 -------
Subject: Re: Size of static variables always zero on arm-elf
GCC is not emitting the type or size information for static bss symbols.
-- sdj
$ echo 'static int foo = 1;' >foo.c
$ arm-elf-gcc -S foo.c -odata.s
$ echo 'static int foo;' >foo.c
$ arm-elf-gcc -S foo.c -obss.s
$ diff -u data.s bss.s
--- data.s 2006-03-15 13:08:17.000000000 -0700
+++ bss.s 2006-03-15 13:08:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
.file "foo.c"
- .data
+ .bss
.align 2
- .type foo, %object
- .size foo, 4
foo:
- .word 1
+ .space 4
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.1.0"
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26702
