Alexander Grobman <Alexander.Grobman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We just recently switched to PowerPC gcc 3.3.2 from 3.1.1 and found > that the way how the initialized data distributed into sections > had been changed. > > In old version initialized variables went to ".sdata" section > regardless the init value. > > The newest version puts variables, which initialized to zero, to > ".sbss". which is empty in the executable, in assumption > that the memory is cleaned before usage, while non-zero go to ".sdata". > > We did not want to initalize memory to speed up boot operation. > > Is there any way (a switch) to cause gcc to behave as the older version? > This will allow to initalize only required memory .. Try -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss. Ian
