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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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Subject: Re: question regarding bss section
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:17:12PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> > .bss is uninitialized.  Initialized data can't be in .bss.
> 
> No. BSS is initialized as zero.

RTFM.  It's unitialized because not contained in the binaries.

  Ralf