Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:33:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] clean up vdso-layout.lds.S |
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Petr Tesarik wrote: >>> >> *(COMMON) is BSS, not data... > > Very true, but for the vDSO we decided to put both writeable and > read-only data into one section (called .data for that matter), probably > to reduce the number of sections and hence also the size of the > resulting binary. >
BSS is neither, but I guess for the vDSO there really isn't any such thing as uninitialized content.
I have to admit feeling funny about that, and I'm wondering if we shouldn't compile the vDSO with -fno-common.
-hpa
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