linker script question

[Nick Papadonis]

Hi.  Quick question that might help me resolve a possible bug in
binutils.

In the following linker script snippit:

	.data : 
	{ 
		_sdata = . ;
		*(.data) 
	} > ram


Can I assume, _sdata becomes a symbol and is initialized with an
unsigned integer value of the memory location  at .data?  

Should _sdata be a symbol located at
.data and assigned nothing?

'ld' is apparently doing the later.  I don't think this is correct.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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- Nick