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RE: as memory use for large bss arrays


On 11 January 2008 16:51, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:37:47PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 11 January 2008 16:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>         .type   alloc_bm, @object
>>>         .size   alloc_bm, 4503599627370368
>>> alloc_bm:
>>>         .zero   4503599627370368
>> 
>>> Question is why does it even seek for generating BSS?  That is just a
>>> number isn't it?
>> 
>>   Surely in the absence of any section directive, that's not going to be
>> treated as @nobits?
> 
> There is
> 
>     .section        .init.data
>     .align 32
> 
> before it in my case.

  Doesn't that mean "initialised data"?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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