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Re: common symbols

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: ali hagigat <hagigatali at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:34:04 -0800
Subject: Re: common symbols
References: <AANLkTimii9mkxxwMT56x_A0gnWWvMepdm76=BGEPmd2S@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikPCNFbq85FBh=HCFG_Zs8twL0XO4=cn28oKdGq@mail.gmail.com>

ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> writes:

> As far as I understood "common symbol" is defined and it is part of
> the input section named, COMMON. But that depends on assembler. For
> GNU as, it seems that we can not define common symbol!!

A common symbol is distinct from a definition or a reference.  It has
nothing to do with an input section named COMMON.  The linker script
language does permit you to pretend that all common symbols are in an
input section named COMMON, but that is just a convenience for the
linker script language.

In GNU as you can define a common symbol using the .comm pseudo-op, as
documented in the assembler manual.

Please consider doing more research before asking your questions.
Thanks.

Ian

References:
- common symbols
  - From: ali hagigat
- Re: common symbols
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