Symbols in .comm doesn't move to .sbss?

[Andreas Schwab]

Masaki Muranaka <monaka@monami-software.com> writes:

> I found a support in read.c / bss_alloc().
> The symbol in .lcomm will be collected because bss_alloc
> is called by s_lcomm. But there is no path for .comm.
> So the symbols in .comm will be never moved to .sbss.
>
> Is this a bug? or a correct behavior?

I don't think it would be correct to move .comm to .sbss, since the symbol
could be merged with a larger .comm symbol of the same name in a different
module during linking.

Andreas.

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