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Re: All those old patches.


> 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.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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