Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:08:20 +0100 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" |
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David S. Miller wrote: > There is no guarentee that contiguous data or bss section members > will appear contiguous and in the same order, in the final object.
That's a different issue and actually okay in this case.
What I meant to show is an example where the compiler happens to allocate the variables in sequence, and where it could access them either by referencing each by absolute address, with relocation (so that objdump-patcher could change that), or by generating a pointer and using pointer-relative addressing or pointer increment (so we only get one relocation and never know what may go wrong with the other variables).
- Werner
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