Re: GOT error in gas

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > __asm__ (".global number; number = 0x12345678");
> > extern void number;
>
> These two declarations are not compatible.  The latter declares number as
> a data symbol, but the former defines it is an absolute symbol.  Thus what
> you get is undefined behaviour.
>
> Andreas.

Hi

I thought that .types do not care for linking, I never ran into problem 
with different .types on symbols. BTW. if you look at assembler, there are 
no .type directives regarding "number" at all.

How otherwise should external C variables be placed at absolute locations? 
(I need variables and function on absolute locations quite often and I 
always used this method)

Mikulas