fhla POLINK: warning: /SECTION:.bss ignored; section is missing

[cronos4d]

with very simple code i get the following wargning using the fhla assembler version 1.56:

fhla POLINK: warning: /SECTION:.bss ignored; section is missing

here is the source

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program helloWorld;
#include( "stdlib.hhf" );
begin helloWorld;
stdout.put( "Hello, World of Assembly Language", nl );
end helloWorld;

any ideas? thx in advance

[Vortex]

Welcome on board.

I receive the same message with free HLA V1.86 ( the latest one ) but it's not a problem. You can have a look at the files created by fhla.exe, hello.asm creates a .bss section by default, this is why you get the warning message :

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section '.bss' readable writeable align 16
include 'hello.bss.inc'
rb 4 ;dummy to keep linker happy

hello.bss.inc is an empty include file in this example. ( file size = 0 )

[Sevag.K]

It happens because the default linker response file HLA creates also has a .bss section (HLA storage section). Which in this case, is empty.  As Vortex suggests, you can safely ignore the warning.