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Symbolic Picture: .bss is part of .data section

GNU ld: Linking .bss into .data to Ensure that Mem Size Equals File Size For Each LOAD Segment (.bss in a PROGBITS Section)

Update: I found another variant. I appended it to the end of the article. Original post: Some rudimentary ELF loaders require that p_memsz equals p_filesz for each LOAD segment in order to simplify the loading of the file. For example, the microkernels NOVA and Hedron have this restriction to bootstrap Read more…

By Philipp Schuster, ago