------- Comment #8 from sjackman at gmail dot com 2006-03-15 20:10 ------- Subject: Re: Size of static variables always zero on arm-elf
GCC is not emitting the type or size information for static bss symbols. -- sdj $ echo 'static int foo = 1;' >foo.c $ arm-elf-gcc -S foo.c -odata.s $ echo 'static int foo;' >foo.c $ arm-elf-gcc -S foo.c -obss.s $ diff -u data.s bss.s --- data.s 2006-03-15 13:08:17.000000000 -0700 +++ bss.s 2006-03-15 13:08:17.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ .file "foo.c" - .data + .bss .align 2 - .type foo, %object - .size foo, 4 foo: - .word 1 + .space 4 .ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.1.0" -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26702