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Re: How to create one section like ".bss"

From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web dot cs dot ndsu dot nodak dot edu>
To: He Yunlong-B20256 <B20256 at freescale dot com>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:56:08 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: How to create one section like ".bss"
References: <20100124182558.GA10900@lucon.org> <20100124204013.GA23810@lucon.org> <20100124213558.GA616@lucon.org> <20100124232312.GA16903@lucon.org> <6368A20E269B6B4CA5ABB15E14F34C829D0167@zch01exm22.fsl.freescale.net>

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, He Yunlong-B20256 wrote:

  We know that ".bss" is one uninitialized section, which won't occupy
file space but can be accessed by application at runtime, is it possible
for us to create one section like it?

I think the trick is to make the section without the loadable attribute.

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Michael   hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

References:
- PATCH: Remove and replace { "(bad)", { XX } }
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Remove and replace { "(bad)", { XX } }
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Remove and replace { "(bad)", { XX } }
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Remove and replace { "(bad)", { XX } }
  - From: H.J. Lu
- How to create one section like ".bss"
  - From: He Yunlong-B20256

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