x86-64 large data sections updated

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 00:34:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:43:31AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> Hmm, right.  I guess elf_backend_additional_program_headers is the right
> place for this.  Now when lbss comes just after .bss, we will likely
> need 1 segment for ldata, 1 segment for lrodata and lbss doesn't count,
> or am I counting total nonsense?

Well, one for (ldata | lbss), one for lrodata.

> OK, so dropping here the lcommon test sounds sane?

The entire function is not sane.  The .largecomm assembler directive
should set the section to SHN_X86_64_LARGE_COMMON, and that should be
the end of it.  Once COMMON symbols get mapped into .lcommon/.lbss
sections, they don't return.


r~



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