[Bug binutils/22734] New: nm documentation: misleading information about BSS

[vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22734

            Bug ID: 22734
           Summary: nm documentation: misleading information about BSS
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.31 (HEAD)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: vincent-srcware at vinc17 dot net
  Target Milestone: ---

The nm documentation in the manual contains:

@item B
@itemx b
The symbol is in the uninitialized data section (known as BSS).

However, this is misleading, because this section is actually initialized to
zero (at least under Linux) and is used for symbols corresponding to objects
initialized to zero. The manual should mention this fact, i.e. that objects
initialized to zero may be found in this section.

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