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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:56:11 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Why are some global vars part of the image,
 and some not?
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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