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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@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: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:56:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <454F854B.9000402@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454F8373.1000300@smiths-aerospace.com>

Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> In theory, yes.  In practice, I have my doubts that it is workable, let 
> alone a better way.  Writing "then the compiler would be the one that 
> zeros BSS" is easy, actually making it work may be tricky.

It's a pretty simple linker script change, actually.  Just move all of 
the lines within .bss {} into .data {}.  Where do you see the difficulty 
coming from?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-06 18:56 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
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 [this message]
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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