POLINK and FASM/MASM

[Randall Hyde]

Hi,
I've been having to deal with an annoying problem for quite some time and I'm wondering if there is an easy solution to this.
When using FASM to produce a COFF output file that I link with POLINK (same problem with MASM), I always get the warning:

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

The section is there in the .obj file, it's just that it's an uninitialized data section so there is no data associated with it. I would argue that, because this is an uninitialized data section, this is a perfectly reasonable situation and no error message should be given.

I'm a bit concerned about this because currently about half the questions I get from HLA users who opt for the fHLA package are "why am I getting this error?".  Of course, it's not an error and I tell them just to ignore the warning, but it would be a lot friendlier if the warning never appeared.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde