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From:	Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To:	Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Add __initbss section
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Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
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> Also not that with the current patchset applied, there are now 2
> segments that need to be loaded, hopefully it won't cause any issues
> with any bootloaders out there that would assume that an image has
> only one segment...

This breaks at least conversion to ECOFF as used on DECstations.
Srec might also be affected, I'm not sure about that.


Thiemo