On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> BSS was a later addition and there is no ".bss" pseudo-op directive, >>> unlike the ".comm" directive. There only is the BSS storage class. >> >> Do you know where I could find documentation for how to write out >> something with BSS storage class? Is that something that GNU binutils >> support, so that I can try it out?
This may be related to GCC Bugzilla 46072. I believe there was an issue in the past with the AIX linker not merging explicit BSS CSECTs as expected. - David
