From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 1 9:30:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C668737B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@nuxi.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.muxi.com [206.40.252.115] (may be forged)) by relay.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f51GU5l74207; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f51GU5804327; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:30:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What changed in ld? Message-ID: <20010601093000.A4306@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20010601024234.A440@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010601024234.A440@whizkidtech.net>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:42:34AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:42:34AM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > I have recently upgraded from FreeBSD 3.1 to 4.3-20010525-STABLE. And thus upgraded your assembler and linker from GNU Binutils 2.9.1 to 2.10.1. When you upgrade to 4.4-FreeBSD you will get GNU Binutils 2.11. > 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 would be a question for the GNU Binutils mailing list to find out why they changed anything. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message