"Abel Bernabeu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The offset of some sections fall in the middle of the .bss section. In > instance, look at the sections 12 (.comment) and 13 (.ARM.atributes). > Both sections are overlapping with 11 (.bss): > > [11] .bss NOBITS 0001143c 00143c 000048 0 WA 0 0 > 4 > [12] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 00143c 000094 0 0 0 > 1 > [13] .ARM.attributes SHT_LOPROC+3 00000000 0014d0 000010 0 0 0 > 1 > [14] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 0014e0 00007b 0 0 0 > 1 > [15] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 001804 000c70 16 16 92 > 4 > [16] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 002474 000840 0 0 0 > 1 > > Is this fact meaningful??
The fifth column is the file offset. Since the .bss section does not occupy any file space the other sections can be put directly behind it in the file. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
