the "load" command and the .bss section

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Tue Apr 29 01:10:00 GMT 2008


> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, drow@false.org,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:34:13 -0700
> 
> I have not looked at this recently, but the last time I did, 
> there were several different implementations of the "load" 
> command, and they did not all behave identically, particularly
> with regard to the concept of VMA vs. LMA.
> 
> That's one reason it hasn't been well documented -- it is
> not particularly well defined.

I'm trying to establish whether there's something we could say in the
manual about this that would be useful to readers.  If there's nothing
to be said about this issue that's generally useful, we can just say
nothing.



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