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Article #33511Re: different parts of an ST binary.
From: Paul Kerchen
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 06:02
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1988 06:02
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In article <8136@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rfpfeifle@violet.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle) writes: >I'm curious about the way binaries are stored prior to being loaded for >execution, and about what the loader does to the program being loaded. > >But what is the bss section for? And what does the loader do to addresses >in all three sections? > The bss section is where the UNinitialized variable space is stored. The data section just has initialized data. As for your other questions, I do not know. As a matter of fact, I'd be interested in finding out the format of ST binaries as well. > > >Thanks, >Ron Paul Kerchen | kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu Disclaimer: I am unemployed, but if I weren't I'm sure my boss would disagree with whatever I said.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!kerchen From: kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: different parts of an ST binary. Keywords: bss Message-ID: <2659@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 8 Aug 88 06:02:29 GMT References: <8136@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: kerchen@iris.UUCP (Paul Kerchen) Distribution: comp Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 20