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From: tiemann@LURCH.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Tiemann)
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Subject: An old problem with "Hello world"
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Date: 7 Oct 88 05:29:37 GMT
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The problem was in varasm.c.  The trick is to make variables which
need to be initialized at the file level appear to be in initialized
data, rather than in uninitialized data.  GNU ld will not load the
contents of a library file just for .bss space.

Michael