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Subject: Re: Writable global section?
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:01:42 +0200
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

|> Well, yes I found out.. This anomaly with the assembler.....
|> 
|> .section .data
|> .global	pars
|> .type	pars,@object
|> .size	pars,4
|> .align  4
|> pars:	.long	0
|> .end
|> 
|> 
|> I accidentally left out .size, guess what? Even though I had an
|> offset recognized and a ".long", initialized to 0, there was no
|> space allocated and therefore the seg-fault. I would have seen
|> this, but the problem doesn't exist if the ".section" is ".bss",
|> the first section I was messing with. Go figure?

I think this problem only exists on platforms with COPY relocations.

Andreas.

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