PATCH: Add type to __data_start

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Feb 10 23:30:00 GMT 2003


H. J. Lu wrote:

>>Any specific reason why?  I always thought __data_start makes one
>>example where NOTYPE makes sense.  I can be convinced to apply the patch
> 
> 
> Who is using __data_start? How are you going to access it?

I don't know who's using this symbol and it is irrelevant for this
discussion.  The type isn't used in access.

My point is that __data_start really is no object at all.  It's a marker
and given their is no type for such a thing NOTYPE seems fine to me.


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