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Re: All those old patches.
- To: velco at fadata dot bg
- Subject: Re: All those old patches.
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:37:58 -0700
- CC: nickc at cygnus dot com, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200005230039.RAA16933@elmo.cygnus.com> <392A3CE2.B42AE469@fadata.bg> <200005230801.BAA00455@localhost.cygnus.com> <392A4DF3.41D07831@fadata.bg>
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:22:59 +0200
> From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
> > Why is the comment
> >
> > - /* Both of these sections are (technically) created by the user
> > - putting data in them, so they shouldn't be marked
> > - SEC_LINKER_CREATED.
> >
> > wrong?
>
> They ARE linker created, aren't they ? And LINKER puts data in them ?
No, the user puts data in them, by writing things like
.section ".sdata"
somelabel:
.long 1234
and the sections need not exist if the user never does this.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>