Re: A possible bug / user error

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:17:30PM -0800, Adrian B. Weissman wrote:
> Hello:
>      I am using objcopy to take an elf32-power pc file
> and convert it to a binary file.  My problem is that
> the bss section is not being included in my binary
> image.

By default objcopy only copies sections that have contents.  You can
arrange to copy .bss to your binary file with

objcopy -O binary --set-section-flags .bss=alloc,contents

You might find that your elf32-powerpc input file has more than one bss
section, for instance, you might have .bss and .sbss.  You need to
mention each bss section that you want included in a --set-section-flags
option.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre