Re: Size of .comm section not reported by objdump/size

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Jon Beniston" <address@hidden> writes:

> It appears as though objdump does not display information for data in
> .comm section.

That is correct.  That is because there is no .comm section.  Instead
this information is represented by defining a common symbol.  A common
symbol has a name and a size.  The linker will allocate memory for it
when producing a fully linked executable, or when invoked with the -d
option.  A common symbol may be replaced by a fully defined symbol;
look at the documentation for the --warn-common option.

Common symbols will be displayed by nm or objdump -t.

Ian