Strange additional data in text section of arm-coff object files
Nick Clifton
nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue May 29 01:16:00 GMT 2001
Hi David,
> Concerning the text section only,
> I found size of text in hello_cof.o is 16-byte more than size in
> hello_rel.o content of these 16 bytes of data is "FFFFFFFF 00000000
> FFFFFFFF 00000000"
The answer becomes obvious once you use disassemble the two text
sections. In the fully linked executable you will find this at the
end of the .text section:
00008028 <__CTOR_LIST__>:
8028: ffffffff swinv 0x00ffffff
802c: 00000000 andeq r0, r0, r0
00008030 <__DTOR_LIST__>:
8030: ffffffff swinv 0x00ffffff
8034: 00000000 andeq r0, r0, r0
These words are inserted by the linker script. (Run ld --verbose to
see the default script that the linker will use). If this is a
problem for you, you can create your own linker script that does not
add these words. (Always assuming that you Ir not using any C++ in
your program, since these words are used to build the static
constructor and destructor lists).
Cheers
Nick
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