On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:04 pm, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Meanwhile I had the idea to run objdump -t on the kernel and on
> nfs_boot.o. It looks like a compiler bug. The compiler (GCC 3.3.2-nb1,
> updated monday) placed some global variables into a .ident section
> instead of .data. Similar to find_port from sys/netinet/ip_h323_pxy.c,
> but this is a function not an int.
>
> objdump -t ip_proxy.o | grep ident
> 00000000 l    d  .ident 00000000
> 00000000 l     F .ident 00000168 find_port

The way this works, it would have to be a gas bug, not a gcc bug.