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Re: Bug: BSS segment in COFF files
> >> If you run gcc with '--save-temps' flag, and then look into
> >> 'yourfile.s' file, you'll see that uninitialized data is tagged as
> >> "common" (using '.comm' directive) and is put to bss only by linker
> >> when final executable is created. To turn this feature off, use
> >> '-fno-common' flag when compiling your object file.
>
> WH> This works, however only if the variables are non-static. If a
> WH> variable is static the .comm directive is still used.
>
> .lcomm, to be precise.
>
> That's easy to work around. Just add 'int dummy;' to your source
> file compiled with gcc, and you have 4 bytes in bss section.
But how does this help? The other static variables still use
the .lcomm directive.
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