[llvm-dev] why do undefined globals end up in .data instead of .bss?

[Tim Northover via llvm-dev]

On 25 April 2017 at 13:41, Tobias Edler von Koch via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> It would be entirely correct if we emitted all 1s
> instead of all 0s for undef. If you really want it to be .bss,
> zeroinitializer seems to be the better choice.

It sounded like he didn't care what the actual data was, just that it
didn't consume space in the object file.

Tim.