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Re: [RFH] Uses of output.h in the front ends
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> BSS was a later addition and there is no ".bss" pseudo-op directive,
>>> unlike the ".comm" directive. There only is the BSS storage class.
>>
>> Do you know where I could find documentation for how to write out
>> something with BSS storage class? Is that something that GNU binutils
>> support, so that I can try it out?
This may be related to GCC Bugzilla 46072.
I believe there was an issue in the past with the AIX linker not
merging explicit BSS CSECTs as expected.
- David