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Re: The .sbss section on ELF/x86
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:00:48 +1030
- Subject: Re: The .sbss section on ELF/x86
- References: <20011126121301.A8654@lucon.org>
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:13:01PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I am not aware ELF/x86 ever uses .sbss. But there is always an empty
> .sbss section in every x86 ELF binart. Does it have to be therre?
No. From memory, I think the PROVIDEs in the sbss output section
will create the section.