.lcomm generates symbol with type STT+AF8-NOTYPE not STT+AF8-OBJECT

[Jie Zhang]

Hi,

The statement

.lcomm symbol, length, align

has the same semantics with

.local symbol
.comm  symbol, length, align

Both of them put symbol in the .bss section.
However, the former makes symbol have type STT_NOTYPE,
and the latter makes symbol have type STT_OBJECT.

I think the symbol should have type STT_OBJECT.
We can achieve this effect by adding a line in read.c in gas directory

At the end of function s_lcomm_internal in read.c

change these code :

(2144)  subseg_set (current_seg, current_subseg);
(2145)
(2146)  demand_empty_rest_of_line ();

into:

(2144)  subseg_set (current_seg, current_subseg);
(2145)  symbol_get_bfdsym (symbolP)->flags |= BSF_OBJECT;
(2146)  demand_empty_rest_of_line ();




Jie Zhang