Re:Main is usually a function, so when is it not? (2015)
by dfox on Sunday September 10, 2017 @04:10PM
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I stand corrected about real linker behavior :) In fact merging all RW sections into one big segment with .bss at the end makes perfect sense.
My point was essentially that for ELF this is not some kind of kludgeish special case for .bdd, but general feature that any segment can be zero extended to arbitrary size larger than what is contained in the executable image (although on sane platforms it is not useful for anything but .bss)
My point was essentially that for ELF this is not some kind of kludgeish special case for .bdd, but general feature that any segment can be zero extended to arbitrary size larger than what is contained in the executable image (although on sane platforms it is not useful for anything but .bss)