Re: [Tinycc-devel] Do not put static variables into a common section.

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Rob Landley wrote:
> > I'm no expert in linking, but it occured to me that the common section is
> > only for global symbols which in the end get merged to one, i.e. the same
> > global symbol defined in multiple objects.  Obviously, this is never the
> > case for static symbols:  they all need to be created and may never be
> > merged.
> Ah, when you said "don't put them in a common section" I parsed that as "put 
> each static variable into its own section".

Oh yes.  Should read "in THE common section".

> Query: is this just _uninitialized_ static variables?  What happens to ones 
> initialized to a default value?  If it's a global, those don't go in .bss, 
> they go in...  Darn it, .data?

Yes.  Any variable which is initialized goes to .data.  Except for thread 
variables which go to .tdata :)

cheers
 simon