Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Writable global section? | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:01:42 +0200 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
|> Well, yes I found out.. This anomaly with the assembler..... |> |> .section .data |> .global pars |> .type pars,@object |> .size pars,4 |> .align 4 |> pars: .long 0 |> .end |> |> |> I accidentally left out .size, guess what? Even though I had an |> offset recognized and a ".long", initialized to 0, there was no |> space allocated and therefore the seg-fault. I would have seen |> this, but the problem doesn't exist if the ".section" is ".bss", |> the first section I was messing with. Go figure?
I think this problem only exists on platforms with COPY relocations.
Andreas.
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