| MLINK_FORMAT_BSS

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In nostub mode, if you put

    #define MLINK_FORMAT_BSS

at the beginning of the program, a BSS section will be created dynamically at run time, and the references into this section will be stored in the program in a compressed format. A BSS section holds uninitialized global variables. This format for the relocation entries (first used in Johan Eilert's mlink linker) is designed to balance the size of the relocs against the size of the decompression routine. The relocation entries take only slightly more space than in the compressed format, but the decoding code is much smaller. Moreover, as for the compressed format, the decoding code only has to be inserted into the program once if multiple `MLINK_FORMAT_...` features are used. In most cases, this should be the optimal format to use for relocation entries, but for programs with very few or very many relocations, the kernel or compressed formats (respectively) are more efficient.
This feature uses the linker-specific symbol __ld_insert_mlink_bss_refs.

See also: KERNEL_FORMAT_BSS, COMPRESSED_FORMAT_BSS, MERGE_BSS