common symbols

[ali hagigat]

As far as I understood "common symbol" is defined and it is part of
the input section named, COMMON. But that depends on assembler. For
GNU as, it seems that we can not define common symbol!!

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:27 PM, ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is in relation with GNU ld. What is common symbol?
> How the linker considers space for common symbols, would you please
> give me an example?
> is a label common symbol?
> Regards
>