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I am currently using (gcc 2.8.1) cross powerpc-*-eabi hosted on Solaris 2.5.1. Looking at the section (IBM RS/6000 and PowerPC Options) in the guide (Using and Porting GNU CC) it states that -meabi and -msdata-data will be defined by default. The flag -msdata-data claims that on embedded PowerPC systems small global and static data will be put in the ".sdata" section. It doesn't say but I'm assuming these globals are initialized. This seems to be ok. It also says that small uninitialized global and static data will be put in the ".sbss" section. Im finding that small uninitialized global variables are going in ".sbss" but small uninitialized global static variables are going in ".sdata". This doesn't seem right. I would expect them to both go in ".sbss". This same behavior was also seen when explicitly using (-msdata=eabi), (-msdata=sysv), (-sdata=data) and (-mno-eabi). When using (-mno-sdata) all small initialized globals (static or otherwise) now go in ".data" like would be expected. Also, the small uninitialized global statics now go into ".bss". The small uninitialized globals go into the ".sbss". This situation is somewhat more acceptable as I can clear either of these areas (write over with zeros). Why in this case aren't they both put into the same area (either .bss or .sbss)? I want to use the default because it is supposed to do exactly what I want. Am I doing something wrong or is this problem fixed in some later version (egcs)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Vaughan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ New CrossGCC FAQ: http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC _______________________________________________ To remove yourself from the crossgcc list, send mail to crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'unsubscribe' (without the quotes) in the body of the message.