From:	snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
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Subject:	Re: A bug
Date:	Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:04:31 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Endlisnis wrote:
>
>>     Well, I can't seem to recreate it, so it was probably my
>> imagination, but I did notice that static array values are loaded
>> from the executable, which makes this program over 40Megs as an
>> executable:
>You probably compiled this as a C++ program, because C programs don't
>have this misfeature.  See section 8.12 of the FAQ for a work-around.

This was discussed on one of the egcs mailing lists not too long ago. The
fix is to add a statement to DJGPP's config file in gcc that tells gcc the
name of the bss section. The fix is now in the gcc CVS and I think Andris
will be using it in his gcc 2.95 binary.

Mark
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