linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sh: align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary

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Message-ID: <c80e0fb60f9b8b13c39215e0418d32244102ece2.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:44:13 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
Cc: Artur Rojek <contact@...ur-rojek.eu>, Yoshinori Sato	
 <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, Daniel Lezcano
	 <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Geert
 Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>, "D . Jeff Dionne"
 <jeff@...esemi.io>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, 
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sh: align .bss section padding to 8-byte boundary

Hi Uros,

On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 09:32 +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > OK. FWIW, do you understand what SBSS is for? I couldn't find any explanation
> > for it.
> 
> Small BSS section. The compiler can put data objects under a certain
> size threshold to the .sbss section. Looking at GCC sh config, sh does
> not use this section.

Thank you, that helps me understand what's going a bit more!

Adrian

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