On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:13:01PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > I am not aware ELF/x86 ever uses .sbss. But there is always an empty > .sbss section in every x86 ELF binart. Does it have to be therre? No. From memory, I think the PROVIDEs in the sbss output section will create the section.