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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] module linker script: coalesce function and data sections
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:09:57 +0100
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To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:

> linker groups all similarly-named input sections into one output section
> with the same name, if the name does not match any rule in the linker
> script.
> 
> Basically, it should work as if there is a rule:
> 
> .sbss    0 : AT(0) { *(.sbss) }

Okay, thanks.

David