Re: powerpc-eabi and -msdata

[Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>]

Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:

|> > From: jtc@redback.com (J.T. Conklin)
|> > Date: 15 Jun 2001 09:33:13 -0700
|> 
|> > I suspect that, because "__bss_start" and "end" are declared as small
|> > globals, gcc assumes that they will be located in the sdata/sbss or
|> > sdata2/sbss2 sections.  The link fails because they are not.
|> > 
|> > What's the best way to solve this?  The reason I access __bss_start
|> > and end is for clearing bss in C.  I guess I could move this to my
|> > startup code without too much trouble.
|> 
|> Declare them in C as
|> 
|> void __bss_start;

You can't do that, since void is not a complete type, and there cannot be
any objects of type void.

Andreas.

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