Amittai Aviram <amittai.aviram@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I would like to insert labels into my executable as it is being linked > so that there is a "start" label just before my user-defined global > variables in the .bss section and an "end" right after them, when I > use static linkage. Thus the output of .bss from objdump -D would > include some lines something like this, supposing I had global > variables global_a and global_b: This is the kind of thing which is much more easily done using a linker script. > Here is what I tried (but it didn't work). I wrote a file head.s and > one called tail.s: > gcc -static -o hello head.s hello.c tail.s This does not actually put the files first and last. To see why not, add the -v option and look at the linker command. To put the files first and last, you will have to use -nostdlib to disable gcc's default start files and libraries, and then replicate them on the command line yourself, with head and tail where you want them. Ian
