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Re: as memory use for large bss arrays


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:37:47PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 11 January 2008 16:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > 
> >         .type   alloc_bm, @object
> >         .size   alloc_bm, 4503599627370368
> > alloc_bm:
> >         .zero   4503599627370368
> 
> > Question is why does it even seek for generating BSS?  That is just a number
> > isn't it?
> 
>   Surely in the absence of any section directive, that's not going to be
> treated as @nobits?

There is 

    .section        .init.data
    .align 32

before it in my case.

-Andi


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