On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:52:23 -0700 (PDT) 
 Gandhi woulda smacked you <greywolf@starwolf.com> wrote:

 > # Sections:
 > # Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
 > #   0 .text         00120468  f0004000  f0004000  00000074  2**2
 > #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
 > #   1 .rodata       000199cd  f0124468  f0124468  001204dc  2**3
 > #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
 > #   2 .data         0001547c  f014de38  f014de38  00139eb0  2**3
 > #                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 > #   3 .bss          00023d54  f0163300  f0163300  0014f400  2**8
 > #                   ALLOC
 > #   4 .comment      00004f10  00000000  00000000  0014f400  2**0
 > #                   CONTENTS, READONLY
 > 
 > Folks, I think we have a real winner here.  To my green-horned point
 > of view (WRT linker/compiler issues), it looks as though the .comment
 > section points to exactly the same place as the .bss does.  I'm
 > guessing that the READONLY attributes takes precedence on that chunk
 > of code for at least the first 0x4f10 bytes of code.
 > 
 > Am I mistaken, or is this an overwrite (i.e. shouldn't file off for
 > .comment really be 0x14f400 + 0x23d54, or 0x173154)?

No.  Neither the .bss or .comment sections are actually loaded from the
file (per the program headers).

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>