Programming & DevOps
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…