What changed in ld?

[Philip Blundell]

>Very well. Here is some example code that performed flawlessly
>before, but causes a bus error whenever the "write" procedure
>is called. If I comment out the "section .bss" directive, it
>works, but wastes disk space as it allocates the buffers in the
>.data section instead of just reserving it in the .bss section:

Thanks, but a test in this form is not much use to me; I don't run FreeBSD, 
and I don't have nasm.  For linker bugs you really need to provide an object 
file, the output generated by the linker, and a detailed explanation of what 
is wrong with the latter (e.g. "the destination for the CALL instruction at 
0x666 is incorrect", or "the .frobozz section is missing from the output 
file").  Simply reporting that your program crashes is not especially useful 
since that might be caused by bugs in your code, or in the assembler you are 
using, or in some library.

p.


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