From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Why are some global vars part of the image, and some not?
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:38:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454BEF23.1020909@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061104003140.C65BF352658@atlas.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Since you complained about a problem where I could not see any (at
> least none that was not clearly documented) I was not sure if your
> expectation of "global" was correct, i. e. if you were aware of the
> differences between "global" on file level versus "global" in the
> meaning of "external" to the linker.
I was aware, I just didn't think it mattered for the issue that I was
seeing.
> Then you must make sure that even zero-initialized data don't get
> placed in bss, and your approach was correct.
What about modifying the linker script so that all of bss is merged into
the image, i.e. treat it like 'data'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-04 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-03 21:58 [U-Boot-Users] Why are some global vars part of the image, and some not? Timur Tabi
2006-11-03 22:19 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-03 23:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-04 0:09 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-04 0:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-03 23:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-04 0:07 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-04 0:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-04 1:38 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2006-11-04 2:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-06 17:43 ` Scott Wood
2006-11-06 18:03 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-11-06 18:08 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-06 18:48 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-11-06 18:56 ` Scott Wood
2006-11-06 19:06 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-11-06 19:46 ` Scott Wood
2006-11-06 19:54 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-06 20:13 ` Jerry Van Baren
2006-11-06 20:21 ` Timur Tabi
2006-11-06 20:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-06 20:35 ` Tolunay Orkun
2006-11-06 20:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-06 20:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-11-06 20:48 ` Scott Wood
2006-11-06 21:15 ` Wolfgang Denk
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