On 01-Jun-01 G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 3.1 to 4.3-20010525-STABLE.
>
> I wrote a very simple assembly language program that was giving me
> a bus error. For several hours I have been trying to find what was
> wrong with it, but could not.
>
> Finally, out of desperation, I moved uninitialized data from .bss
> to .data, and suddenly the program worked without a problem.
>
> This puzzled me, so I used ld on an older program of mine, one of
> the programs from my assembly language tutorial
> (http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/). It started giving me the same
> bus errors. The version I created under 3.1 continues to work
> fine.
>
> That tells me something has changed in the way ld handles the .bss
> section between 3.1 and 4.3 - either on purpose or as a bug.
> This completely invalidates my assembly language tutorial. If the
> change was on purpose, can someone please tell me what new switch
> I need to use with ld to recognize the .bss section as being bss?
binutils was upgraded from 2.9.x to 2.10.x as of 4.1 release. This
might be a bug in the new ld. You might want to ask the binutils
list about it. I don't have the address for it handy, but David
O`Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> should.
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