On Apr 03 2019, Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@netcologne.de> wrote: > The large default initializers are all filled with zeros which end up in > the rodata section, like this: > > .text > .globl __types_module_MOD___def_init_types_module_Archive_type > .section .rodata > .align 32 > .type __types_module_MOD___def_init_types_module_Archive_type, > @object > .size __types_module_MOD___def_init_types_module_Archive_type, > 262144 > __types_module_MOD___def_init_types_module_Archive_type: > .zero 262144 > > ... and so on. To reduce the size of the executable, it would make more > sense to put this into the BSS section.
Note that .bss is writable. There is no read-only bss section. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
