Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 02:42:34 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: What changed in ld? Message-ID: <20010601024234.A440@whizkidtech.net>
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I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 3.1 to 4.3-20010525-STABLE. I wrote a very simple assembly language program that was giving me a bus error. For several hours I have been trying to find what was wrong with it, but could not. Finally, out of desperation, I moved uninitialized data from .bss to .data, and suddenly the program worked without a problem. This puzzled me, so I used ld on an older program of mine, one of the programs from my assembly language tutorial (http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/). It started giving me the same bus errors. The version I created under 3.1 continues to work fine. That tells me something has changed in the way ld handles the .bss section between 3.1 and 4.3 - either on purpose or as a bug. This completely invalidates my assembly language tutorial. If the change was on purpose, can someone please tell me what new switch I need to use with ld to recognize the .bss section as being bss? Thank you, Adam -- Perfection is for neurotics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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