On Dec 20, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Eric Fisher wrote:
Hello, For such a program, int a=0; int main(void) { ... } We will see the compiler put the variable 'a' into the bss section. That means that 'a' is a non-initialized variable. I don't know if this is the gcc's strategy.
Yes for zero'd initialized variables, GCC puts them into BSS to say space in the executable. -- Pinski