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Re: Named bss sections
- To: chris at lslsun dot epfl dot ch (Christian Iseli)
- Subject: Re: Named bss sections
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 23:30:14 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199709021415.QAA23431@lslsun17.epfl.ch>you write:
> In the gcc snapshot distributed by Cygnus with the cygwin32 tools, there
> was support for named bss sections which had been added by someone at
> Cygnus. This support has disappeared from egcs. Was there any reason?
> If not, the following patch should re-enable this.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
>
> * varasm.c (assemble_variable): Enable named bss sections.
Exactly what problem are you trying to solve. As Gavin noted, we
pulled that patch out as we thought it wasn't strictly necessary.
If it's necessary on your target, can you please explain why?
jeff